Otsego Township Land Records
1856 - 1874
Township 121, Range 24,
Fractional Township
The following transcriptions from the land office
records gives the original owners of all the land
pre-empted and homesteaded in Wright County. This is the
roll of honor of those who dared the rigors of a pioneer
country and started the first developments. The list is
in the main accurate, though, through carelessness of
the land office registers and their clerks, the original
entries are often misspelled, and transcriptions of more
or less illegible handwriting since that date have
distorted some of the names in various ways. But
especial efforts have been made to insure accuracy in
this printed list, and the names of thousands of old
pioneers will be recognized.
The first claims in the Congressional township
1856
13-Caroline E. Buel, July 16
George W. Barnes, June 14
14-William B. Mabie, June 27
John S. Leyerly, December 11
Obodish Inscho, June 27
Nelson Demick, November 13
15-E. K. Harper, July 31
Andrew J. Hoyt, July 31 |
22-A. J.
Hoyt, July 31
Leonard Choate, November 3
William Mathews, November 3
23-John M. Snow, July 31
24-George W. Barnes, June 14
27-L. W. Hamlin, September 26
34-O. H. Porter, December 8 |
1857
23-Theodore L. Page, March 27
C. C. Bicknell, March 21
24-John A. Combs, June 13
Richard Davis, April 27
L. D. Allen, July 20
25-William Wind, March 24
Alexander H. Morrison, May 28
John C. Morrison, August 26
John C. Flemming, March 24 |
26-Hudson
A. Gaskill, Jr., March 25
Julius J. Brown, October 9
Arthur Douglas, June 26
John Peck, March 25
27-Henry D. Southard, October 27
Samuel M. Hammons, January 27
35-John N. Morris, April 23
Charles F. Scatney, August 3
Adam Steinberg, December 9 |
1859
10-Tileston Snow, October 6
15-Hiram Harper, October 6 |
1860
10-William
Shelefoo, October 16
13-David L. Ingersoll, November 13
Andrew J. Hubbard, September 12
James McDermid, November 13
15-Dana Hamlet, November 20 |
22 - O. M.
Washburne, November 23
23-John W. Washburne, November 20
24-James McDermid, November 23
35-Peter Jilles, September 28 |
1871
| 34-Peter
Columbus, November 14 |
1874
| 22-Joseph
K. Clark, March 2 |
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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