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3 unusual facts about Land grant


Mareen Duvall

He received a patent from the first proprietors of the Maryland Colony, the Calvert family on that day for La Val, named after his family's estate in the County of Laval, an independent county created in the 15th century in the County of Maine, on the south side the South River in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Portage, Nova Scotia

European settlement was begun in the area by people who moved here from Tracadie, Prince Edward Island, attracted by the availability of grants of land.

Simon de Brantingham

De Brantingham and his son, Walter, appear as a witness to the grant, on 2 July 1324, of a messuage and appurtenances on the high street in Beverley, between Margaret, widow of Walter de Brychton of Beverley, and Roger Northiby of Walkington.


Berkeley Hundred

Berkeley Hundred was a land grant in 1618 of the Virginia Company of London to Sir William Throckmorton, Sir George Yeardley, George Thorpe, Richard Berkeley, and John Smyth (1567–1641) of Nibley.

History of the Puritans in North America

In 1620, after receiving a patent from the London Company, the Pilgrims left for New England on board the Mayflower, landing at Plymouth Rock.

Lewis Rendt

Upon his retirement, he took to farming on the Canadian side of the St. Clair River near Port Huron with the aid of a Canadian land grant.

Mandeville House

In 1697 William III granted the property that included the future Mandeville House to Adolphe Philipse, whose family owned much of today's Putnam County.

Manor St. George

The patent for Manor St. George was granted to Col. William "Tangier" Smith in 1693 in recognition of Col. Smith's being mayor of Tangier in Africa.

Pennoyer v. Neff

Marcus Neff hired an attorney, John H. Mitchell, to help him with paperwork and other legal matters incidental to his efforts to obtain a land grant under the Donation Law of Oregon, an act of the United States Congress enacted on September 27, 1850 (expired December 1, 1855) which provided an incentive for the development of land in the territories of the American West by conveying parcels of land to be used for further development.

St. Philip's Church in the Highlands

The new complex was possibly named St. Philip's in honor of the Philipse family, original patentees of the area and Robinson's in-laws.

United States Court of Private Land Claims

During Spanish (1598–1821) and Mexican (1821–1846) rule over what was to become the U.S. Southwest, the governments made land grants to various individuals and communities.


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Albion River

The name was originally applied to a land grant in 1884 by William A. Richardson, and the river inherited the name of the grant.

Allegany Indian Reservation

Historically the reservation was adjacent to the Cornplanter Tract, a 1500-acre perpetual land grant given to Seneca chief Cornplanter and his descendants that extended into Pennsylvania.

Caymus, California

It was located on Rancho Caymus, a Mexican land grant, a very notable wine producing area.

Ceolfrith

In 674, Benedict Biscop received a land grant from King Ecgfrith for the explicit purpose of erecting a monastery.

Charter colony

The Council of New England authorized a land grant, allowing the company rights to the area between the Charles and Merrimack rivers to the Pacific Ocean westward.

Clayton, West Virginia

The first land grant in Clayton was made in 1786 to Colonel James Graham of Lowell.

Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind

Colorado Springs founder William Jackson Palmer was the land-grantor of several institutions in Colorado Springs, including the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind.

David Burn

He failed to qualify for a land grant returned to Edinburgh in 1829, divorcing his wife there.

Dixon, New Mexico

The area was inhabited by Tiwa peoples from nearby Picuris Pueblo, then settled by Spanish colonists under the 1725 Embudo Land Grant.

Doaktown, New Brunswick

Robert Doak was able to purchase a large amount of the original land grant and built a farm and grist mill on the property.

Don José Vidal

The Spanish Commandant, José Vidal, preferred to remain on Spanish territory, and petitioned the Spanish Governor-General Manuel Gayoso de Lemos for a land grant across the Mississippi River from Natchez.

Gurupá

:This article is about a city on the island of Marajó; for the island, see Ilha Grande do Gurupá; for the Amazon.com content delivery system, see Gurupa; for the Portuguese colonial land grant, see captaincy of Gurupá.

History of North Carolina State University

As a land-grant college, NC State would provide a “liberal and practical education” while focusing on military tactics, agriculture and the mechanical arts without excluding classical studies.

History of North Georgia College and State University

The Morrill Act required all students in land-grant colleges to receive some military training and the college only had one military instructor at a time, until Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916 and the college established an ROTC the same year.

Jesse Cornplanter

Because he left no heirs, his death officially marked the expiration of a treaty granting Cornplanter's heirs a perpetual Pennsylvania land grant along the Allegheny River; seven years later, much of the tract would be flooded as a result of the construction of the Kinzua Dam.

Kendall County, Texas

:December 20 - Henry Francis Fisher and Burchard Miller sell their rights in the land grant to Adelsverein.

La Habra Stakes

Once a land grant named by its owner, Rancho Cañada de La Habra, it's one of southern California's earliest settlements.

Las Animas

Rancho Las Animas, a land grant in Santa Clara County, California

Lower Brandon Plantation

Martin's new plantation built on the 1616 land grant was initially named "Martin's Brandon", apparently incorporating the family name of his wife, Mary (née Brandon) Martin, daughter of Robert Brandon, a prominent English goldsmith and supplier to Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Malahide, Ontario

Malahide Township was named for Malahide Castle in Malahide, Ireland, birthplace of land grant administrator Colonel Thomas Talbot in 1810.

Manuel Domínguez

Manuel Dominguez (1804–1882), heir to the Rancho San Pedro land grant

Marlborough, New York

A land grant (patent) of this territory was made to Captain John Evans of the Royal Navy in 1694, and one of his first settlers arrived in 1697.

Maxwell Land Grant

Beginning in 1922, Waite Phillips, an oilman from Tulsa, Oklahoma also assembled a block of land on the Maxwell Land Grant.

Meusebach–Comanche Treaty

Only five Adelsverein settlements were attempted in the Fisher-Miller land grant area: Bettina, Castell, Leiningen, Meerholz, and Schoenburg.

Münchenbuchsee Commandery

This land grant included the villages of Münchenbuchsee, Wankdorf and Worblaufen as well as vineyards on Lake Biel.

Nine Partners Patent

The Little Nine Partners Patent (1706), land grant in Dutchess County, New York, USA

The Great Nine Partners Patent (1697), land grant in Dutchess County, New York, USA

Norman Cleaveland

Norman raised eyebrows with his assertion that his grandfather's death was not accidental but due to lingering animosity with a group known as the Santa Fe Ring over the land grab that occurred of the original land grant.

Paula Gunn Allen

Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, New Mexico Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation.

Pilar, New Mexico

In February 1793 the region was taken possession of by 20 persons who had received it as a land grant (Cieneguilla Grant) from the King of Spain Charles IV through his military governor in New Mexico, Don Fernando Chacón.

Rio Linda, California

The Rio Linda/Elverta community is located on part of the Rancho Del Paso Mexican land grant of 1844.

Roland Warpole Loane

Loane had a land grant at Pittwater and after 1818 purchased several areas in the country, including one at Eastern Marshes in the Oatlands district, and a number of small areas in Hobart, on which he built houses which he let to government officers.

Scottsmoor, Florida

Scottsmoor was settled in 1861 by James Garvin, who acquired the land through the Spanish Land Grant.

Silverado, California

Portions of the town sit on a former Mexican land grant Rancho Lomas de Santiago.

Squak Mountain

The initial land grant of 590 acres to form the park was made by the Bullitt family.

State cessions

#Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Its original land grant from the British Monarch to William Penn was for the land between the 42nd parallel and the 38th parallel in latitude, and extending westward five degrees in longitude.

Thomas Bullitt

When a number of his militia company exercised their land grant bounties in what would become Bath County, Virginia, he bought land there and built an Inn at Hot Springs in 1766.

Thornhill Francis Broome

William Richard Broome was the owner of the southern portion of the historic Spanish land grant Rancho Guadalasca in Ventura County, which lay from Pitcher Slough to and beyond Sycamore Canyon with minor property breaks.

Trinoda necessitas

For example, the land grant of Æthelberht of Kent to a thegn in 858 was free of obligation, except explicitly for military service, bridge repair, and fortification.

United States Court of Private Land Claims

At first the Congress tried to deal with each land grant by special bill and the House had a Committee on Private Land Claims, seats on which were sought after as a way of dispensing patronage.

University of West Virginia

Following the decision in Brown v. Board of Education State was desegregated, gave up its land grant status and was placed under the Board of Education as well.

William Pedley

Pedley went to America where he was manager of the San Jacinto Land Company, who developed part of the Sobrante de San Jacinto land grant at Riverside, California.

Wilmington, Los Angeles

The Port of Los Angeles district of Wilmington was included in the 1784 Spanish land grant of Rancho San Pedro.

WQBC

Michael M. Davis a native son of Lorman, Mississippi- the site of Alcorn State University, the first African-American land grant institution in the United States