Rent rolls, original record, 1748-1775.

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Rent rolls, original record, 1748-1775.

Non-circulating original rent roll record book that has been replaced by a circulating photostatic copy; see the Rent Rolls series [MSA S0018].

.5 cubic ft.

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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...