Samuel Medary, the third Territorial Governor of Minnesota, signed this document appointing A.P. Buell as a Notary Public in the Territory of Minnesota on the 21st of August in 1857. The document states that Buell was a resident of Le Sueur County at the time.
This document for two shares of stock in the Saint Peter Workingmen's Co-operative Association was issued on September 16th, 1870 to someone whose name appears to be John P. Gren. This may be the man who is listed as John P. Grand, a farmer in Oshawa Township, in the 1870 Nicollet County census. The certificate was signed by the association's president, Robert J. Billingsley, a farmer from Lake Prairie Township, and by the secretary, St. Peter attorney Charles S. Bryant.