Rent rolls, 1639-1776.

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Rent rolls, 1639-1776.

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Proprietary record of who patented tracts of land. Entries consist of name of person for whom the tract was surveyed, list of subsequent transactions, name of present owner, acreage, and quit rent. Arranged by county. Tract indexes in each volume. For name indexes see MARYLAND INDEXES, Rent Rolls, Index series [MSA S1428]. For tracts in Anne Arundel County see MARYLAND INDEXES, Rent Rolls, AA, Tract Index series [MSA S1429].

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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...