John Martin Receives the First Land Patent Ever Issued

This week's General Land Office "Record of the Week" takes you to the first surveyed state of Ohio, where the first land patent was issued.

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The GLO web site provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than 12 million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present.

The site also hosts images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records, and is the most visited website in the Department of the Interior. Visit glorecords.blm.gov for more information.