Below is an excerpt from Works of J. Fenimore Cooper, Vol. 7 of 10: Wyandotte; The Monikins; Jack Tier
The abuse of the grants, as land became more valuable, induced a law, restricting the number of acres patented to any one person, at any one time, to a thousand. Our monarchial predecessors had the same facilities, and it may be added, the same propensities, to rendering a law a dead letter, as belongs to our republican selves.
The patent on our table, being for a nomi nal hundred thousand acres, contains the names of one hundred different grantees, while three several parchment documents at its side, each signed by thirty-three of these very persons, vest the legal estate in the first named, for whose sole benefit the whole concession was made the dates of the last instruments succeeding, by one or two days, that of the royal patent itself.
About the author: James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune.
Condition: This book is in very good condition! The binding is still intact and the pages are held together and organized. No signs of stains or water marks just light dirt. See photos for reference.
Dimensions: 7 inches wide by 10 1/2 inches tall
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