President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison Grant Land to an Early Settler of the Northwest Territory

20/02/1809. Adam Replogle was an investor in US lands in the Northwest Territory. In 1805, he obtained 144.65 acres in what is now Madison Township, Montgomery Co., OH. A little later that land - the northwest and south east quarter of section 34 - was entered by Daniel Gripe, a Pennsylvanian. Then Replogle obtained a larger body of land in sections 27 & 34, which in 1816 was also the property of Daniel Gripe.On May 29, 1806, Replogle purchased 160 acres in what is now Perry Township, Montgomery Co., OH. On February 20, 1809, John Gripe, a Pennsylvanian who had migrated to the Northwest Territory, and likely a relative of Daniel, obtained this land from Replogle, and made full payment for that land at the Land Office at Cincinnati OH. The land was in the SE 1/2 of Lot or Section 11, Twp 5, Range 4. Gripe settled in on that land in Montgomery Co. and died there in 1818. This is John Gripe’s grant of land, obtained by us directly from the Gripe family descendants, and never before offered for sale.Document signed by Thomas Jefferson as president and James Madison as secretary of state, Washington, February 20, 1809, less than two weeks before Jefferson left office, to be succeeded by Madison. It is made out to “John Gripe, assignee of Adam Replogle,” for the “South East Quarter of Section number 11 of Township number 5 Range number 4, East of a meridian line drawn from the mouth of the great Miami River…To have and to hold the said lot or section and the appurtenances, unto the said John Gripe, his heirs and assigns forever.” With a particularly fine, large signature of Jefferson.