This house is still standing today on fifty-five acres of the original land patent.
Luther Lincoln on the other hand was granted two land patents by the federal government in 1825.
This original land patent is on display at the Story Inn.
All land patents are supported by one or more acts of Congress.
Dutch land patents traced their title to such a purchase.
After the War of 1812, the United States began to issue land patents to settlers.
According to his land patent, to be legally binding, each deed had to have a president's endorsed signature upon it.
The first land patents were issued in 1776.
The name Rochester began with the issuance of a land patent in 1703.
The name is derived from an early land patent.