{"id":772,"date":"2015-08-05T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2015-08-05T23:05:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T23:05:19","slug":"im-an-american-and-im-buying-some-kansas-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"I’m An American and I’m Buying Some Kansas Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bureau of Land Management Cash Sale files are known for there dearth of information. Because of that, I typically don’t request copies of these files for people who are relatively well-documented. Cash land files typically only include a few receipts and information on issuing the patent once final payment has been made.<\/p>\n

The only reason I requested the cash sale file for George E. Troutfetter in Thomas County, Kansas, was because the property was within a few miles of a homestead his father, Christian Troutfetter, received. I did not expect the file to tell me anything.<\/p>\n

Then I received it.<\/p>\n

George E. Troutfetter made out a statement that he was a native-born citizen of the United States and was born in Warsaw, Hancock [County], Illinois. He doesn’t state his age–only that he is of legal age.<\/p>\n

I’m not entirely certain why George had to make out this statement. It might have been because his parents were German natives, but I have no real idea if that is the case or not. To be perfectly honest, none of my immigrant ancestors made federal land purchases, so I don’t have an item with which to compare it. However, I do know that homesteaders had to prove citizenship and it may have been the case with federal land purchases as well. This is a case of where until one encounters the problem one does not always give it much thought.<\/p>\n

Despite the reason, his statement makes the point that one never really knows what one will find in a file until one receives it. I knew George was a native born citizen before I ever obtained this file.<\/p>\n

George’s age is not mentioned because all that mattered was that he was of legal age.<\/p>\n

We are still working on the copy of his father’s nearby homestead application.<\/p>\n

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Bureau of Land Management Cash Sale files are known for there dearth of information. Because of that, I typically don’t request copies of these files for people who are relatively well-documented. Cash land files typically only include a few receipts and information on issuing the patent once final payment has been made. The only reason […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-george-e-troutfetter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}