Patent record, 1637-1979.

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Patent record, 1637-1979.

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Contains primarily patents, certificates of survey, and some warrants of survey. Entries also include probate records and records pertaining to indentured servants. Patents are documents granting ownership rights to some previously unpatented property. It has the nature of a deed and contains a description of the property and conditions of tenure. Warrants were precepts issued to a surveyor who in turn generated certificates of survey which are official descriptions of a plot of land.

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Maryland State Archives

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Maryland (Colony). Land Office.

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In 1680, Charles the third Lord Baltimore appointed a Register of the Land Office to administer the new agency. The register assumed duties previously reserved for the Governor or Secretary and began to issue warrants of survey, grant patents, to take the probate or rights for land. In 1684, Charles established a four-member land council to hear and determine all matters relating to land in Maryland. As a result of the Protestant Revolution of 1688, the Land Office was c...