Delaware Land and Property: Difference between revisions

The earliest land grants in [[Delaware]] were given by the Swedes and Dutch. When the English acquired the area in 1664, land grants were issued by the proprietary of James, Duke of York, in New York. When jurisdiction fell to William Penn in 1682, land was granted by this proprietary until the Revolutionary War. Records of the Penn proprietary have been microfilmed:  

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*Pennsylvania. Surveyor General's Office. ''Proprietary Papers, 1682-1850''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=12338&disp=Proprietary+papers%2C+1682%2D1850%20%20&columns=*,0,0 film 1006521] has table of contents; on 25 films.) Microfilm copies of many of the Penn proprietary documents are also at the Delaware Public Archives.  

*Myers, Albert Cook, ed. ''Walter Wharton's Land Survey Register, 1675-1679''. Wilmington, Delaware: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1955. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=286221&disp=Walter+Wharton%27s+land+survey+register%%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 973 R2wa; film 1000156 item 3].) This is a transcript of the original register with an index.  

*''Original Land Titles in Delaware, Commonly Known as the Duke of York Records . . . 1646 to 1679''. 1899. Reprint, Westminster, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1988. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=530761&disp=Original+land+titles+in+Delaware%2C+comm%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 975.1 R2o].) Transcript with index. The 1903 edition is on Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=45873&disp=Land+titles+in+Delaware+commonly+known+a++ film 006616 item 2].  

*Gehring, Charles T. ''Delaware Papers'', Two Volumes. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1977-1981. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=974.7+N2d book 974.7 N2d].) Volume one has transcriptions of records concerning the English period, 1664-1682. Volume two contains records relating to the Dutch period, 1648-1664. Transcript with index.  

*Pennsylvania. Land Office. ''Applications for Warrants, 1734-1865''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975. (On 173 Family History Library films starting with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=99197&disp=Applications+for+warrants%2C+1734-1865++ 984123].) Filed by the first letter of the applicant's surname within each year. These applications for warrants are for Pennsylvania but include some for what is now Delaware. The applications were usually filed one or two weeks before the land warrants were issued.  

*Pennsylvania. Surveyor General's Office. ''Applications for Warrants, 1755-1886''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=9666&disp=Application+for+warrants%2C+1755-1866++ films 988263-66].)  

*Weinberg, Allen, and Thomas E. Slattery. ''Warrants and Surveys of the Province of Pennsylvania Including the Three Lower Counties, 1759''. 1965. Reprint. Knightstown, Indiana: Bookmark, 1975. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=249920&disp=Warrants+and+surveys+of+the+province+of+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 974.8 R2w; film 1036747 item 2].) This includes records for 1682-1759 of Pennsylvania and the three lower counties, which are now Delaware.