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| | The Wallace Land Patent of 1770 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | In 1770 lands in the New York colony of Great Britain was being granted or assigned to noblemen, officer's of the King's Army and land speculators. |
 | | The original 'letters patent' for the Wallace Land Grant on file with the New York State Archives and transcribed at the end of this document, shows that they were required to pay, to the Crown, yearly rents of two shillings and six pence sterling per hundred acres. |
 | | In the Otsego County area the most well known Land Grants were the Croghan(later Otsego) the Hartwick, the Morris, the Johnson, the Fitch, Franklin, the Butler, The Robert Edmeston, the Willie Edmeston, The Middleton, the Upton, the Miller, the Reade (later Otego),the Schuyler, the Mckee, and the Wallace(4). |
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