Land Patent for Jacob Frautschy [Frautschi], 2 October 1854

The United States of America,
to all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:

Whereas, in pursuance of the Act of Congress, approved September 28th, 1850 entitled "An Act granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the Military Service of the United States," Warrant No. 76178 for 40 acres, issued in favor of Samuel S. Brown, Private in Captain Curtis' company, Massachusetts Militia War 1812 has been returned to the GENERAL LAND OFFICE, with evidence that the same has been duly located upon the South East quarter of the South West quarter of Section Twenty, in Township Ten, North of Range four East, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Mineral Point Wisconsin, containing Forty Acres according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said LAND returned to the General Land Office by the SURVEYOR GENERAL, which has been assigned to Jacob Frautschy
Now know ye, That there is therefore GRANTED by the UNITED STATES unto the said Jacob Frautschy the Tract of LAND above described: To Have and to Hold the said Tract of LAND with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Jacob Frautschy and to his heirs and assigns forever.

In Testimony Whereof, I, Franklin Pierce 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 Second day of October in
the Year of OUR LORD one thousand eight hundred and fifty four and of the
Independence of the United States the seventy-ninth

BY THE PRESIDENT: Franklin Pierce
By H.E. Baldwin Asst. Secretary
J.N. Granger, Recorder of the General Land Office