I have a question about the dates of Land Patents.  There are two
particular Patents that puzzle me.

My ancestor Robert Adams received a number of Patents.

He received one dated 11 April 1732, page 431.
He received another date 29 September 1733, page 124 in the next book.
The patents adjoin each other.  However, the property description in the
1732 Patent has as part of the bounds, the property line from the 1733
Patent.  The 1733 Patent makes no reference to the property lines from
the 1732 Patent.  It just seems backward.

Secondly Robert Adams wrote his will dated 22 Feb 1738.  In the will he
gives each of his children a piece of land.  One of the children is
given land on Mychunk Creek "joining my great tract up the creek and is
a separate Patent" 
The "great tract" was not Patented until 22 September 1739, nineteen
months AFTER the will was written.  Obviously the land had to be
identified and surveyed well before the Patent was written.  Is the
Patent just a long after-the-fact document?


Thanks
Al Adams
  

 

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