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.

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