Land title origins
Subtitle: a tale of force and fraud.
Contributors: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.
Publisher: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
Subjects: Land titles -- United States.; Land tenure -- United States.
First sentence: Immediately upon the return of Columbus to Barcelona, in 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella sent an ambassador to Rome to obtain a grant to them by the Pope of the newly discovered land in the West.
Notes: At head of title: Alfred N. Chandler.

Bibliography: p. 521-529.
Table of contents: pagenum: 1
title: Dawn of the American Conquest
class: section
label: 1; pagenum: 12
title: Who Owned America?
class: part
label: 2; pagenum: 15
title: Why Europeans Migrated to America
class: part
label: 3; pagenum: 23
label: 4
class: part
title: The Indians and Land; pagenum: 37
label: 5
class: part
title: Manors; pagenum: 39
label: 6
class: part
title: Indented Servants; pagenum: 42
title: Religious Liberty Overstressed as Motive for Migration
class: part
label: 7; pagenum: 48
label: 8
class: part
title: Virginia; pagenum: 77
label: 9
class: part
title: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and New France; pagenum: 122
label: 10
class: part
title: Connecticut; pagenum: 142
title: Rhode Island
class: part
label: 11; pagenum: 155
title: Vermont
class: part
label: 12; pagenum: 164
title: New York
class: part
label: 13; pagenum: 221
label: 14
class: part
title: The Delaware Region (Below the Schuylkill); pagenum: 226
class: part
title: The Swedes and the Dutch; pagenum: 242
class: part
title: New Englanders on the Delaware; pagenum: 245
class: part
title: The Dutch on the Delaware; pagenum: 254
class: part
title: The Plowden Grant; pagenum: 256
class: part
title: British Dispossess the Dutch; pagenum: 262
class: part
title: William Penn Claims Delaware; pagenum: 273
label: 15
class: part
title: Maryland; pagenum: 302
title: New Jersey
class: part
label: 16; pagenum: 349
title: The Carolinas
class: part
label: 17; pagenum: 377
label: 18
class: part
title: Georgia; pagenum: 381
title: The Gulf Region
class: part
label: 19; pagenum: 398
title: Pennsylvania
class: part
label: 20; pagenum: 433
title: The Trans-Appalchian Region
class: part
label: 21; pagenum: 441
label: 22
class: part
title: Kentucky; pagenum: 446
label: 23
class: part
title: Tennessee; pagenum: 451
label: 24
class: part
title: Texas; pagenum: 455
title: California
class: part
label: 25; pagenum: 466
title: The Oregon Country
class: part
label: 26; pagenum: 474
title: The Public Domain
class: part
label: 27; pagenum: 514
class: part
title: Epilogue; pagenum: 521
class: part
title: Bibliography; pagenum: 531
class: section
title: Index; pagenum: vii
class: part
title: Encomium; pagenum: ix
class: part
title: Preface; pagenum: xiii
class: part
title: Acknowledgments