Title: Land title origins, a tale of force and fraud.
Authors: Chandler, Alfred N. 1858-; Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.
Publisher: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation,
Year: 1945
Subjects: Land titles United States.; Land tenure United States
Contents: Dawn of the American conquest -- Who owned America? -- Why Europeans migrated to America -- The Indians and land -- Manors -- Indented servants -- Religious liberty overstressed as motive for migration -- Virginia -- Masasachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and New France -- Connecticut -- Rhode Island -- Vermont -- New York -- The Delaware region (Below the Schuylkill); the Swedes and Dutch; New Englanders on the Delaware; the Dutch on the Delaware; the Plowden grant; British dispossess the Dutch; William Penn claims Delaware -- Maryland -- New Jersey -- The Carolinas -- Georgia -- The Gulf region -- Pennsylvania -- The Trans-Appalachian region -- Kentucky -- Tennessee -- Texas -- California - The Oregon country -- The public domain