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To understand what happened to proper land transfers we must learn a bit about history. Up until the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock there were no successful colonies founded in this new land. The fort at Jamestown had been built but virtually every year everybody sent there died. The people considered being sent to the Americas by the British, or the French, was rightfully considered a death sentence. The King of Great Britain had to come up with a way of getting people to willingly come here; so, he offered what the British people called “The King’s Folly”, which were Land Grants made Patent. They people called it the King’s Folly because the most primary difference between the King and the people is the King owns all of the Land. Thus, when a king grants Land to a freeman the act itself acknowledges the man is sovereign with his own domain, which is the right to self-govern his own private Kingdom! Such a thing would be pure folly for a King. Accordingly, men were willing to risk everything to come here to secure such a right of Kings; or, die for the honor.

When a group of people, called “Puritans”, who had fled to Holland to avoid the King’s religious persecution, learned of this “folly”, they recognized it as the only way they could truly live free and worship God as they chose. So, they moved back to England and for several years negotiated for this “Land Grant made Patent” with the full right of self-rule. The problem with their negotiations was that they had little funds and could not pay for their passage to the new land. In the end, they got everything they wanted, the Land Patents freely granted with the right of “self-rule”, but they had to pay for the passage with 50% of their production from their new land for seven years.

Initially the King of Great Britain called this whole continent “Virginia”. But, once the Puritans landed, they flourished and new cities sprang up all over the place. In “Hartford, Connecticut”, Seven years after the Mayflower landed, the people from three principle cities, formed a Constitution to establish a Union they called, “United States of America”. From that time until the present, in The United States of America, Title to Land is passed by a Land Grant made Patent—also known as: Land Patent.

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