June 17, 1863 Letitia Carson Homestead application

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Title

June 17, 1863 Letitia Carson Homestead application

Description

This document is an application filed by Letitia Carson on June 17th, 1863, as she settled on land in Douglas County as part of the Homestead Act of 1862. With this application, she agreed to stay on this land, cultivating and improving it for five years. The document includes the coordinates and other information on the land, as well as signatures from both Letitia and John Kelly, Register of the Land Office in Roseburg.

Creator

Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon

Source

Oregon State Archives

Publisher

LCLP

Date

1863-06-17

Contributor

Bob Zybach

Rights

No Copyright, Public Domain

Relation

This document is related to a series of Homestead Act documents Letitia filed titled, "18630617 Letitia Carson Receipt for Homestead Act filing fee of 11.92 dollars"
"18630617 Letitia Carson Affidavit with Homestead application" "18680619 Final Receiver Receipt"
"18680619 Letitia Carson Proof of required land improvements for Homestead describes home built"
"18680619 Homestead Affidavit"
"18680619 Letitia Carson Certificate of Homestead"
"18680619 Letitia Carson Affidavit to certify Homestead"

Format

JPEG image

Language

English

Type

Legal Document

Identifier

Oregon-47

Coverage

Letitia Carson Homestead, Douglas County, Oregon

Collection

Citation

Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon , “June 17, 1863 Letitia Carson Homestead application,” Letitia Carson Digital History Collection , accessed March 29, 2024, https://letitiacarson.omeka.net/items/show/71.

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