Deed of Thomas Tillery Treadaway
01 August 1839
Donated by Randy Treadway
Certificate No. 22, 436,Vincennes Land Office
To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas – Thomas Tillery Treadaway of Dubois County, Indiana has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Vincennes, whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said- Thomas Tillery Treadaway according to the provisions of the act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled “An act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands, “for the North West quarter of the South East quarter of Section thirty six, in Township two North of Range four West, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Vincennes , Indiana, containing forty acres, according to the official plat of the survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General, which said tract has been purchased by the said Thomas Tillery Treadaway”
NOW KNOW YE, That the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration of the premises, and in conformity with the several acts of Congress, in such case made and provided, have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant, unto the said Thomas Tillery Treadaway To have and to hold the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging unto the said Thomas Tillery Treadaway and to his heirs, the said tract above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together will all the rights, privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said Thomas Tillery Treadaway and his heirs and assigns forever.
In testimony whereof, I Martin Van Buren PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, have caused these Letters to be made patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
GIVEN under my hand, at the CITY OF WASHINGTON, the first day of August in the year Of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine and of the INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES the Sixty fourth
By the President: Martin Van Buren
By M. Van Buren, Sec’y
Jos. S. Wilson acting, Recorder of the General Land Office, ad interim