Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869) [Official document of the General Land Office]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03481.35 Author/Creator: Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869) Place Written: Washington, D. C. Type: Document Date: 1 May 1855 Pagination: 1 p : docket ; 25.4 x 39.2 cm. Order a Copy
Partially printed. Signed secretarially for Pierce as President, Colonel Henry E. Baldwin as Assistant Secretary of the General Land Office, and Julius N. Granger as Recorder. States that forty acres of land formerly granted to Private Thomas E. Hardaway (based on an 28 September 1850 act granting bounty land to officers and soldiers) has been returned to the General Land Office and granted to James S. Dollarhide (possibly James Samples Dollarhide). Docketed by Dollarhide. Docketed by [NJ Jenson?], a clerk and recorder, 18 January 1864. Features paper seal.
Pierce was United States President 1853-1857.
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