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The Milo Smith, Oren Briggs and John Phillips Addition of Stevens Point

The original document is secured inside Portage County Deed book "B" next to page 334. It contains a drawing of the newly platted streets and town lots and a legal description of the location of the land (which is too difficult to read on the photocopy).

We the undersigned hereby certify that we have cansul? the annex Plat to be platted and surveyed as an addition to the Plat of the town of Stevens Point for the same purposes and subject to the same liabilities that town plats are subject to and giving and granting to peoples? ? and to the public all the rights and priviledges there authorized or allowed by law -

In the presence of Geo W Cate

Milo Smith
by his attorney in fact
A. B. Crosby
Oren Briggs
John Phillips

personally appeared before me the above named A. B. Crosby, Oren Briggs, and John Phillips and in ???, in that they had ? ? the above certificate ? as ? ? ?.
Aug 13 1853
Geo W. Cate

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Addition of Stevens Point

I do hereby certify that this diagram is a true copy of my survey of the addition of the town of Stevens Point made fro Smith, Briggs & Phillips.

Given under my hands? this 12th day of August AD 1853.

D Prentice

40 Acres County Surveyor of Portage County

Register office Portage County

Smith, Briggs and Phillips signatures

Here we have Oren Briggs' signature on the document relating to the formation of the Smith, Briggs and Phillips Addition of Stevens Point in 1853. From this, I suppose we can assume he spelt his name O-r-e-n.


Briggs house

This is the house Oren built in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. It now appears to be student housing.