THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Certificate
No. 21,806
To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas Cyntha C. Gorman, of Wright County,
Missouri
has deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States,
a Certificate of THE REGISTER OF THE LAND
OFFICE at Springfield,
whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said
Cyntha C. Gorman,
Act of Congress of the 24th of April 1820,
entitled "An act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands," for
the East half of the Lot numbered four of the North
East fractional quarter of Section six, in Township twenty-
nine, of Range fourteen, in the District of Lands
subject to sale at Springfield, Missouri, containing forty
acres.
according to the official play of the Survey of the said Lands,
returned to the General Land Office by the SURVEYOR GENERAL,
which said tract has been purchased by the said Cyntha C. Gorman:
NOW KNOW Ye, That the
United States of America, in consideration of the premises,
and in conformity with the several acts of Congress in such case
made and provided, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED,
and by these presents DO GIVE AND GRANT, unto the said
Cyntha C. Gorman
and to her heirs, the said tract above described:
To have and to hold the same, together with all rights, privileges,
immunities, and appurtenances, of whatever nature, thereunto belong, unto the said
Cyntha C. Gorman, and to her heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I, James Buchanan
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
have caused these Letters to be made PATENT, and the SEAL
of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be hereunto affixed.
GIVEN under my hand, at the City of Washington, the first day of June
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine and of the
Independence of the United States the Eighty third
BY THE PRESIDENT James Buchanan
BY J. A. B. Leonard Secretary.
J. N. Granger Recorder of the General Land Office.
Syntha Cross was the daughter of Brittain Cross and Mary Parks of Anderson County, Tennessee. There are records with Syntha's given name spelled various ways, including Syntha, Sintha, Sinthy, and Cyntha.
Many researchers list Brittain Cross as the son of my fourth great grandfather William Cross. But there are strong reasons to suspect that William and Brittain were not father and son. Rather, it seems more likely that they were uncle and nephew, or even more likely it seems that they might have been first cousins once removed.
Syntha was born in Anderson County, Tennessee. She married James Monroe Tunnell 2 Jul 1840 in Anderson County, Tennessee, and they moved to Missouri shortly after they were married.
James Monroe Tunnell died 3 Jul 1850 in Hartsville, Wright County, Missouri. Syntha married John M. Gorman about 1852, and John died on 6 Apr 1854. So she was twice widowed at the time she came into possession of this land.
