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Subject: [RHEA-L] Bureau of Land Managment
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 23:30:41 EST

Bureau of Land Management
| PATENT_L_N | PATENT_F_N | PATENT_M_I |
SECTION_NR | TOWNSHIP | RANGE | MERIDAN_CD
| TOTAL_ACRE | L_O_CODE | DOCUMENT_N |
SIGN_DATE | REMARKS |

| RHEA | JONATHAN | |
2 | 1 N | 14 W | US MILITARY SURVEY |
4000 | OHIO | 0 | 1800/12/11 |
ERKURIES BEATTY |

U.S. MILITARY DISTRICT SURVEY - covers most of central Ohio. Established
by Act of Congress of June 1, 1796, to satisfy Congressional resolutions to
grant bounty lands to Continental officers and soldiers. The Surveyor
General divided the U.S. Military into five districts and made the west
boundary of the Seven Ranges a meridian line and south boundary of the
reserve a base line. Townships were numbered north from the south boundary
and west from the Seven Ranges. Townships 1 through 6 west, were the
southeast survey district. The remaining townships in Ranges 1 through 4,
and Ranges 7 through 12, were in the south middle district; the remaining
townships in Ranges 7 through 12, the north middle district; and all the
townships west of Range 12 were the western district. Most townships only
contain 25 sections instead of 36; some townships were subdivided into four
sections containing about 4,000 acres each. Also includes several tracts
reserved for the United Brethren; the Salem Tract (present-day Port
Washington), the Gnadehutten Tract and the Schoenbrun Tract (present-day
New Philadelphia).




Patricia L. Hall
Olathe, Ks.

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