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Measures 21 x 12 with seal intact.
This document is a land patent issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Frederick Kages on August 31, 1810. It was signed by John Cochran as the Secretary of the Land Office.
Document Details
Type: A partially printed land patent (grant/deed) on parchment/vellum.
Grantee: Frederick Kages, a weaver from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Original Warrantee: Henry Chlent.
Location: A tract of land called "Fredericksburg Survey" in Watermelon Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Acreage: The patent grants two tracts of land, totaling one hundred one acres and forty-four perches, with an allowance of six percent for roads.
Terms: The land is granted "free and clear of all Restrictions and Reservations, as to Mines, Royalties, Quit-rents, or otherwise, excepting and reserving only the fifth part of all Gold and Silver Ore, for the use of this free and ATTEST Commonwealth, to be delivered at the Pit's Mouth, clear of all Charges".
Date: The document is dated the thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and one, and of the Commonwealth the by "John Cochran" as Secretary of the Land-office.
Signed by "Crain" (likely Deputy Surveyor General).
Enrollment: Enrolled in Patent Book M5, page 315.
The form of the document, which begins with the phrase "To all to whom these Presents shall come, GREETING. KNOW YE," was a standard legal format for land grants in the period following the American Revolution, when the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania took over land distribution from the Penn family.
