The Bureau of Land Management is part of the U.S. Department of the Interior. They provide a searchable database to locate land patents that were issued between 1820 and 1908 for Eastern public land. If a record is available you can view it online to see the patent description, the legal land description, and the image of the original document. You can also order a certified copy of the document for your records.

Check out their site: The Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States

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