Index to land patents of the Colonial Land Office, volumes 1-42.

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Index to land patents of the Colonial Land Office, volumes 1-42.

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Each of the forty-two patent volumes is indexed individually. In columns under the number of each volume are listed the name of the patentee, the number of acres in the patent, and the page on which the document is recorded. The names are entered in the order in which they appear in each volume.

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The secretary of the colony, Colonial Land Office, issued land patents based on importation, treasury and military rights. Two copies were made, one going to the patentee and the other retained by the secretary. These copies were hung on strings in the office and as time was available, they were recorded in bound volumes. A random method of selection of documents to be entered accounts for the haphazard dating in the early volumes, and the method of hanging the patent on strings accounts for los...