Ellery Manchester Land Grant, 1818

[12 March 1818]
James Monroe
President of the United States of America.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
Know Ye, That, in pursuance of the Acts of Congress appropriating and granting Land to the late Army of the United States, passed on and since the sixth day of May, 1812, Ellery Manchester having deposited in the General Land-Office a Warrant in his favour, numbered 15,524 there is granted unto the said Ellery Manchester late a Sergeant in Townsend's company of the Ninth Regiment of Infantry a certain Tract of Land, containing One hundred and Sixty acres, being the North West qs of Section thirteen of Township five South in Range four West in the Tract appropriated (by the Acts aforesaid) for Military Bounties, in the Territory of Illinois, To have and to hold the said quarter, Section of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Ellery Manchester and to his heirs and assigns forever,
In Testimony whereof, I 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, this twelfth day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and of the Independence of the United States of America the forty-second
By the President, James Monroe
Josiah Meigs Commissioner of the General Land-Office.
Recorded Vol 23.p.10
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