Federal Land Records for CF Krückeberg

Land-Entry Case File

The documents below are the land-entry case file for the entryman (applicant) Carl Friedrich Krückeberg. This land entry case file from the National Archives Records Administration (NARA) came as this PDF. The images below were extracted from it.

Chapter 9 of Records Generated by Federal Lands, page 110, in Land & Property Research in the United States, 2nd edition, by E. Wade Hone describes the steps involved in purchasing land in the public domain and the documents that were generated. First an individual had to make an application:

Charles F Kinkenberry Federal Land Office Purchase Application and Payment

On 16 December 1850, when Carl Friedrich Krückeberg, applied and paid for land at the Fort Wayne land office, the land office Recorder was Samuel Brenton and the Receiver was apparently Noel Smallwood (whose signature is written with the surname preceding the given name.

Below is a copy of Carl Friedrich Kruückeberg’s application to purchase and the acknowledgement of the payment made for 34 and ³⁰/₁₀₀ acres in The SW ¹/₄ of Section 26, Township 28 North, Range 15 East, Adams county, Indiana. This copy was retained in the Fort Wayne land office and then later forwarded to the General Land Office in Washington, D.C., where the patent was approved (if all conditions had been met) and recorded.

charles f kinkenberry land entry file glo land patent application and payment

Figure 1. Carl Freidrich Krückeberg Fort Wayne Land Office Land Purchase Application and Payment (Click to enlarge)

Documents Carl Friedrich Krückeberg Received from Land Office Officials

Document Signed by Receiver

Below is the image of the receipt acknowledging Carl Friedrich Krückeberg’s payment for a land tract in Section 26, Township 28 North, Range 15 East, Adams County, Indiana. It is signed by the Register of the Fort Wayne land office, Samuel Brenton.

charles f kinkenberry land entry file glo payment receipt from land office receiver

Figure 2. Charles F. Kinkenberry (Carl Freidrich Krückeberg) Fort Wayne Land Office Receipt from Register (Click to enlarge)

Document Signed by Register

The Register signed a certificate for the 34 and ³⁰/₁₀₀ acres at $1 ²⁵/₁₀₀ per acre for which Carl Friedrich Krückeberg paid $42 ⁸⁸/₁₀₀. Below is an image of its front side.

charles f kinkenberry land entry file glo certificate from register frontside

Figure 3. Carl Freidrich Krückeberg Fort Wayne Land Office Receipt from Receiver (Click to enlarge)

Below is the backside of the same document. On it, you see the following written:

Federal Land Patent certificate number: 28621.
The date the land patent is was issued: Pat Jan 15, 1858
the Volume number and page number Re vo 58 p 73

charles f kinkenberry land entry file glo certificate from register backside

Figure 4. Carl Freidrich Krückeberg Fort Wayne Land Office Receipt from Receiver (Click to enlarge)

An explanation of the certificate or final certificate is found on page 113 of Land & Property Research in the United States by E. Wade Home:

This certificate was proof of paten approval, and served as evidence that all of the previously required steps had been fulfilled. IT was imilar to a coupon, redeemable for the patent, which could only be given out by the General Land Office. These patents were of often send to the local land office, where the patentees could more easily exchnage their final certificates and take the precaution of registering the certificates with the local courthouse for legal rederence and protection.

— page 113 of 1997 edition of "Land & Property Research in the United States"

Land Patent

Below is the land patent issued to Charles F. Kinkenberry (Carl Friedrich Krückeberg) and "his heirs". While it differs in appearance from the land patent on the Bureau of Land Management’s website, the wording is identical. You can note on the backside "Fort Wayne" is written.

Figure 5. Carl Freidrich Krückeberg Federal Land Patent front side (Click to enlarge)

This is the back side:

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Figure 6. Carl Freidrich Krückeberg Federal Land Patent back side (Click to enlarge)

Tract Book Entry

The tract book entry for Carl Friedrich Krückeberg, where his name is spelled "Charles F. Tinkenbury". He is found in Volume 2 of the Fort Wayne land office’s the second entry on the page from "United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 195

Figure 7. Carl Freidrich Krückeberg Fort Wayne Land Office tract book entry (Click to enlarge)

Trascription of left page: Tract Book Volume 2, Fort Wayne land office
DESCRIPTION OF THE TRACT				Contents		Rate per Acre		Purchase Money		Name of Purchaser
Part of Section	Section	Township	Range	Acres	Hdths.	Dollars	Cents	Dollars	Cent	Name of Purchaser
Fract SW„	„	„	„	34	30	1	25	42	88	Charles F. Tinkenbury
Sold SW ¹/₄	„	„	„	34	30	Swapland per act of 28.^th. Sept. 1850

Transcription of right page: Tract Book Volume 2, Fort Wayne land office
RANGE No. 15 DISTRICT OF Fort Wayne[Fort Wayne is written by hand]
Number of Register’s Return	DATE OF SALE	Number of Receipt.	Number of Certificate of Purchase.	TO WHOM PATENTED.	DATE OF PATENT	When Recorded
Number of Register’s Return	DATE OF SALE	Number of Receipt.	Number of Certificate of Purchase.	TO WHOM PATENTED.	DATE OF PATENT	Volume	Page
	Dec. 16 1850	28621	28621

Citation

[book-cit] Land & Property Research in the United States, E. Wade Hone, Ancestry Publishing, Provo Utah, 1997
[image529] "United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KDS-HCDC : Mon Sep 16 11:17:18 UTC 2024), Entry for Carl Friedrich Krückeberg, 16 Dec 1850.