﻿II. 
  LAND 
  TITLES. 
  

  

  A 
  KNOWLEDGE 
  of 
  the 
  origin 
  and 
  character 
  of 
  the 
  vari- 
  

   ous 
  titles 
  by 
  which 
  lands 
  are 
  held, 
  or 
  have 
  been 
  claimed 
  

   in 
  this 
  State, 
  cannot 
  be 
  without 
  interest 
  or 
  utility 
  to 
  

   every 
  planter 
  or 
  landed 
  proprietor 
  in 
  it. 
  The 
  following 
  

   brief 
  outline, 
  therefore, 
  the 
  design 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  to 
  supply 
  

   this 
  information, 
  will 
  not, 
  it 
  is 
  presumed, 
  be 
  deemed 
  

   superfluous 
  or 
  out 
  of 
  place. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  grant 
  of 
  land 
  of 
  which 
  we 
  have 
  any 
  account, 
  

   was 
  that 
  most 
  stupendous 
  one 
  made 
  on 
  the 
  13th 
  of 
  

   October, 
  1630, 
  by 
  Charles 
  the 
  First 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain, 
  to 
  

   Sir 
  Robert 
  Heath, 
  of 
  which 
  all 
  that 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  

   lying 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  thirty-first 
  degree 
  of 
  north 
  latitude, 
  

   formed 
  an 
  inconsiderable 
  portion. 
  In 
  1637, 
  Heath 
  trans- 
  

   ferred 
  his 
  grant 
  to 
  Lord 
  Maltravers, 
  and 
  it 
  subsequently 
  

   became 
  the 
  property 
  of 
  a 
  Doctor 
  Daniel 
  Coxe, 
  of 
  the 
  

   province 
  of 
  New 
  Jersey; 
  and 
  in 
  1699, 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  

   that 
  the 
  French 
  established 
  themselves 
  at 
  Baluxi 
  under 
  

   Iberville, 
  his 
  title 
  was 
  recognized 
  and 
  reported 
  upon 
  as 
  

   valid 
  by 
  the 
  attorney-general 
  of 
  King 
  William. 
  

  

  How 
  the 
  attempt 
  of 
  Coxe, 
  the 
  proprietor, 
  to 
  take 
  pos- 
  

   session 
  and 
  occupy 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  year, 
  by 
  sending 
  two 
  

   ships 
  up 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  under 
  Captain 
  Barr, 
  was 
  frus- 
  

  

  