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The
March 27, 1893, Homestead Certificate
Harrison
completed a homestead certificate in 1893 for his 45.55-acre Palomar property.
The April 9, 1921, copy of this claim stated that it was “Recorded
at request of Hamilton & Lindley (Johnson), Apr. 14, 1921.”
Harrison had died the previous fall, in October of 1920, and this later
request was likely linked to the sale of the property. Harrison’s
homestead certificate reads:
The United States of America
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greetings
Homestead Certificate No. 1739
Application 6637
Whereas, there have been deposited in the General
Land Office of the United States a Certificate of the Register
of the Land Office at Los Angeles, California where by
it appears that pursuant to the Act of Congress ap-
proved 20th May 1862, “To secure homesteads to actual
Settlers on the Public Domain,” and the acts supplemen-
tal thereto the claim of Nathan Harris, has been es-
tablished and hereby consummated in conformity to
law, for the Lots numbered one and three of
Section one in Township ten South of Range
one, west of San Bernardino Meridian in
California continuing forty-five acres and fifty
five hundredths of an acre.
According to the Official Plat of the survey of said
Land returned to the General Land Office by the
Surveyor General.
Now know ye, that there is therefore granted
by the United States unto the said - - - Nathan
Harris the Tract of Land above described. To have
and to hold the said tract of Land with the appur-
tenances thereof unto the said Nathan Harris and
to his heirs and assigns forever; subject to any vested
and accrued water rights for mining, agriculture,
manufacturing, or other purposes and rights to ditches
and reservoirs used in connection with such water
rights as may be recognized and acknowledged
and also subject to the right of a proprietor of a
mine or lode to extract and remove his ore therefrom.
should the claim be found to penetrate or intersect
the premises hereby granted as provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof, I Grover Cleveland
President of the United States of America have
these Letters, to be * the Seal of
the General Land Office, to be hereto affixed
Given under my hand at the City of Washington
this Twenty seventh day in March in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety three of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred and Seventeenth
/*/
By the President Grover Cleveland
By M. McKean, Secretary,
I. R. Bonwell,
Recorder of the General Land Office
ad interim
Department of the Interior
General Land Office
Washington, D. C. Apr. 9, 1921
I hereby certify that this photograph is a
true copy of the patent record which is in my custody
in this office.
L. G. B. La May,
Recorder,
Recorded at request of Hamilton & Lindley Johnson
April 11th, 1921 at 10 Min. past 10 o’clock AM
John H. Perry, County Recorder
By N. C. Parsons, Deputy
Fee $10
The geographic designations in the 1892 water claim and the 1893 homestead
certificate are the same and clearly refer to an identical piece of property.
In addition, the lots mentioned in the homestead certificate are still
associated with the property today and are evident on the original undated
yet historical plat map of Harrison’s property (Figure 15).
Figure
15. Original plat map of western slope of Palomar Mountain. Courtesy of
the County of San Diego Record Office
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