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The first US land patent was issued on March 4, 1788, to John Martin. [4] That patent reserves to the United States one third of all gold, silver, lead and copper within the claimed land. A land patent for a 39.44-acre (15.96 ha) land parcel in present-day Monroe County, Ohio, and within the Seven Ranges land tract.
First Kennebec Patent, 1627; Mason's Lands, 1629; Gorges Patent, (de facto 1629; official 1639) Comnock's Patent, 1629; Second Kennebec Patent (also known as the Kennebec Purchase or Plymouth Patent), 1629; Lygonia Patent, 1630; Muscongus Patent (also known as the Waldo Patent, and, eventually, the Bingham Purchase), 1630; Pemaquid Patent, 1631
Thomas "Maas" Swartwout (c. 1660 – c. 1723) was one of the earliest settlers of the Neversink and Delaware River Valley, early landowner in colonial America, one of seven holders of the Wagheckemeck (Minisink Region) Peenpack land patent then in Ulster County October 14, 1697 and one of seven founders with Pierre Guimard, Jacques Caudebec, Anthony & Bernardus Swartwout, David Jamison and Jan ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... Navesink Tract or Navesink Patent was a large triangular tract of land granted as a land patent to settlers of New Jersey during ...
The Fauconnier Patent was a royal land patent granted in 1705 in Dutchess County, Province of New York. It was the twelfth of fourteen granted between 1685 and 1706 that came to comprise the entirety of the historic county footprint (which until 1812 included today's Putnam County ).
The Hudson River shore of the Rombout Patent in the town of Wappinger, New York. The Rombout Patent was a Colonial era land patent issued by King James II of England in 1685 sanctioning the right of Francis Rombouts and his partners Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Jacobus Kip to own some 85,000 acres (34,000 ha) of land they had purchased from Native Americans.
The acquired land would not be liable for any debts incurred prior to the issuance of the patent for it. The time requirement for residence or cultivation was set at 5 years; if it was proven "after due notice" that they moved residence or abandoned the land for more than six months at a time, then the land reverted to the government.
The Great Nine Partners Patent, also known as the "Lower Nine Partners Patent," was a land grant in Dutchess County, New York, made on May 27, 1697, by New York governor Benjamin Fletcher. The parcel included about four miles (6 km) along the Hudson River and was eight to ten miles (13 to 16 km) wide, extending from the Hudson River to the ...