Question: Who was first granted the land where the Sheldon Farmhouse was built?
Context: Women's suffrage in Utah was first granted in 1870, in the pre-federal period, decades before statehood.  Among all U.S. states, only Wyoming granted suffrage to women earlier than Utah.  However, in 1887 the Edmunds-Tucker Act was passed by Congress in an effort to curtail Mormon influence in the territorial government, disallowing the franchise of the majority of residents of the state. Whitemore is a small rural town in Northern Tasmania, in the Meander Valley Council area.  The town's land and surrounding rural area was first granted to Richard Dry in the 1830s then sold for farming to William Hingston in 1854.  Hingston constructed a Wesleyan Chapel, near which a few later buildings were added.  Over time the town has had a blacksmith, post office, library, shops and petrol station; none of these remain in the 21st Century. The Lawton–Almy–Hall Farm is an historic farm at 559 Union Street in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.  The farm comprises 40 acre of land, and a well-preserved farm complex with elements dating to the 18th century.  The land was first granted in 1648 to George Lawton, and was owned by six generations of the family.  It was acquired in 1832 by Pegel Almy, whose family owned it until 1938, when it was sold to the Halls.  The farmhouse is one of the oldest in the area, with its northern section estimated to have been built about 1700, based on stylistic resemblance to the Quaker Meetinghouse (c. 1699) and a local schoolhouse (c. 1725). Dritt Mansion, named after its longest occupants, and also called "Pleasant Garden", and current home to the Zimmerman Center for Heritage, is a historic home located at Lower Windsor Township, York County, Pennsylvania.  It was built about 1758, and is a 2 1/2-story, fieldstone dwelling.  It measures 50 feet long and 40 feet wide, with a cedar shingled saddle roof.  The house has remained virtually unchanged since its construction.  The land the house is on was first granted by Lord Baltimore to Thomas Cresap in 1729, who operated a ferry here and claimed the area for Maryland.  Cresap was arrested in 1736 and driven away after skirmishes known as “Cresap’s War—a dispute finally resolved in 1784 when the Mason-Dixon line was established.  Today the home plays host to Heritage Area offices and programs and the Visions of the Susquehanna River Art Collection. Presidential reorganization authority is a term used to refer to a major statutory power that has sometimes been temporarily extended by the United States Congress to the President of the United States.  It permits the president to divide, consolidate, abolish, or create agencies of the United States federal government by executive order, subject to limited legislative oversight.  First granted in 1932, presidential reorganization authority has been extended to nine presidents on 16 separate occasions.  As of 2017, it was most recently granted to Ronald Reagan. The Counts of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis first appear in the early 11th century.  Its principal town was Clermont, now in the Oise department but then within the ancient county of Beauvaisis in the province of Île-de-France.  The county was sold by their descendant, Theobald VI of Blois, to the French crown in 1218.  It was first granted as an appanage in 1218 to Philip Hurepel; with the extinction of his line, it was granted in 1268 to the House of Bourbon, and was confiscated with the Duchy of Bourbon in 1527. The Iftikhar Sanayi Medal is a medal granted by the Ottoman Empire.  It was first granted by Sultan Abdulhamid II.  The medal features the emblem on the front side and on the obverse side has two branches leaving a blank space for the awardees name to be engraved.  The medal is made of gold or silver. Apertura feudi, in ancient law books, denotes the loss of a feudal Land tenure, by default of issue to him, to whom the feud or fee was first granted. Sheldon Farmhouse is a historic home located at Duanesburg in Schenectady County, New York.  It was built about 1795 and is a two story, five bay, frame residence on a limestone foundation in a vernacular Federal style.  It features a gable roof and interior end chimneys.  Also on the property are two contributing barns. Duanesburg is a town in Schenectady County, New York, USA.  The population was 6,122 at the 2010 census.  Duanesburg is named for James Duane, who held most of it as an original land grant.  The town is in the western part of the county.
Answer: James Duane