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Authored by: mdhmiller on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 12:44 AM EDT |
Many places in the Eastern US are situated on patented lands.
As described by
the
New York State Archives
Patents are lands/privileges typically
granted to one or more persons by the British crown or the state of New York.
"Proprietors" were joint owners of a patent, who subdivided, surveyed, and
conveyed individual allotments. Patents are NOT deeds conveying land from
person-to-person. Grants of land by the colony/state of New York since 1664 are
recorded in series 12943.
So essentially land patents were
grants to proprietors who were responsible for surveying, subdividing, and
attracting settlers to purchase parcels (aka colonial subdivsion developers)
An
1895 map of NY land grants, patents, purchases can be seen on line
at
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