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Final Certificate No. 3034
John William Jones

Land Office
At Clarksville, Ark
August 3, 1857
Sect 26, Town 3N Range 26W
Pat. - March 1, 1860
Rec. Vol. 6, P310

Approved March 1, 1860

HOMESTEAD

Land Office at Clarksville, Ark
August 3, 1857

It is hereby certified, That, in pursuance of Law, John William Jones of Scott County, State of Arkansas on this day purchased of the Register of this office, the Lot or South east qtr of the south east qtr of Section No. twenty six in Township No. Three N of Range No. Twenty Six W containing 40 acres, at the rate of one dollar and ___ cents per acre, amounting to forty dollars and ____ cents, for which the said John William Jones has made payment in full as required by law.

Now, therefore, be it known, that on presentation of this Certificate to the COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE, the said Jone William Jones shall be entitled to a Patent for the Lot above described.

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$40.00
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No. 3034 Receiver's Office at Clarksville dated August 3, 1857
Received from John William Jones of Scott County, Arkansas the sum of forty dollars and ____Cents; being in full for the south east quarter of the south east quarter of Section No. 26 in Township No. Three N of Range No. twenty six W containing forty acres and _____ hundreths at $1.00 per acre.

Receiver

State of Arkansas
County of Scott

I, John William Jones of the Township number three north of Range number twenty six west and now residing in and upon the south east quarter of the south east quarter of section twenty six west in the township and range aforesaid in the County of Scott and sate of Arkansas aged seventy three years, would here represent and set forth that he is a man of usual strength and activity for a man of his age that he cannot travel on horse back for any distance with suffering great bodily fatigue and injury to his already increasing infirmity. He states further that he is unaccustomed to travel on horse back and has no other means of conveyance and that his age and infirmities are such that he can not undergo the fatigue of a journey to Clarksville in Johnson County in the state of Arkansas on foot. He states further that he desires of entering the south east quarter of the south east quarter of section twenty six west in township three north of range twenty six west, being the head of a family (unreadable) that I enter the same for my own use and benefit for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation and that I now reside on the above described land together with my family that together with said entry I have not acquired from act more than three hundred and twenty acres according to return of surveys and that said land is not now in the occupancy of any actual settler andfurther that if there should be an actual settler residing upon said land at the date of my entry of the same I hereby relinquish all claim to the same.

John William Jones
Scott County
State of Arkansas
On this the 9th day of March, 1857

Scott County
State of Arkansas

On this the 9th day of March, 1857 personally appeared before me Levi B. Jones a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Scott the aforesaid John William Jones described in, and, who has signed, the foregoing affidavit who having been duly sworn _____ and says that the statement contained in said affidavit are correct and true.

Levi B. Jones
J.P.

Scanned copy of Levi's signature as it appears in the document.

State of Arkansas
County of Scott

I, J.C. Gibson, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Scott aforesaid do hereby certify that Levi B. Jones whose genuine signature to the above and foregoing certificate of affidavit of John W. Jones, is and was at the time of signing the same a justice of the peace in and for said county duly elected and qualified according to law and that his official act as such are entitled to full faith and credit, testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of Office this 17th day of March 1857.

J. C. Gibson
Clerk