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Land Patentees Town of Germantown

This land patent portal identifies individuals who were the original purchasers of land from the Federal Government in Township 9 North, Range 20 East. This would be the original Town of Germantown. Section 16 was provided the State of Wisconsin to be sold in support of the school system and these purchases are not identified here. Information was obtained from a CD provided by the Bureau of Land Management. Purchase dates came for the book History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Wisconsin.

After some names you may see numbers. They indicate, for these individuals, the purchased land was identified to the surname on a plat map where 9=1859 plat map, 0=identified on 1860 census, 4=1874 plat map, 2=1892 plat map, 5=1915 plat map, and 2nd 9=1929 plat map.