Plat of Everyman’s Refuse–patented for William Gibson and James Rampley in Harford County, Maryland, in 1794
MDLANDREC has Maryland Colonial land patents and county record copies of local land records on it’s site. The land patents are searchable based upon name of property and the name of the patentee. Older land records are not indexed digitally, but copies of the county’s grantor and grantee indexes are online as well.
Copies of the record images can be downloaded as PDF files. There is no charge to use the image site. In some cases, entire grantee/grantor indexes can be downloaded. Pages from various record books can be downloaded individually. Images from the loose patents can be downloaded as well. This is a wonderful website for those with Maryland ancestor who were property owners.
I’ll be giving an hour-long webinar on using this site on 19 March 2016 at 11:00 a.m. central time.
Bonnie says:
When I went to that web site for Harford Co. there were no dates as far back as the 1700s, in fact, they were all recent 20th century. ???
mjnrootdig says:
You have to go here and browse the indexes in order to know what volume and page to request.
https://mdlandrec.net/main/dsp_search.cfm?cid=HA
You can browse the “retired indexes.”
You have to have specific volume numbers to know what to put in the volume box. It’s not super easy to navigate at first.
mjnrootdig says:
The earlier ones are on there as I’ve used them from the 1770s through the 1850s.