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Definition of Homesteaded
1. homestead [v] - See also: homestead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homesteaded
Literary usage of Homesteaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Business Law for Business Men: A Reference Book Showing the Laws of by Anthony Jennings Bledsoe (1907)
"If land is more valuable for its timber than for agricultural purposes, it cannot
be homesteaded. Mineral land cannot be homesteaded. Section 1085. ..."
2. History of Colorado by Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)
"He first took up a tree claim and homesteaded eighty acres. Today he owns three
hundred and twenty acres of rich and valuable land, thoroughly irrigated and ..."
3. Pioneer Tales of the Oregon Trail and of Jefferson County by Charles Dawson (1912)
"Came to Nebraska, and homesteaded on Cub creek in 1868. ... Homesteaded on Cub
creek, where he continued to reside until coming to live in Fairbury. ..."
4. Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties, Iowa by John Licinius Everett Peck, Otto Hillock Montzheimer, William J. Miller (1914)
"At the age of twenty-two he came to Iowa and homesteaded in Osceola county,
settling on the northwest quarter of section 18, in Baker township, ..."
5. The Traverse Region, Historical and Descriptive, with Illustrations of (1884)
"Here he homesteaded the fractional west half of ... County and homesteaded 160
acres of land in Section 13, Town 28, Range 13, where he now resides. ..."
6. Hearings Before the Committee on the Public Lands of the House of by United States Congress. House. Committee on the Public Lands, William M. [from old catalog] Reece (1902)
"I will answer bv saying that the larger portion of the lands homesteaded are ...
You do not wish us to understand that all of the lands homesteaded are ..."
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