An Old Land Title

An Old Land Title.

Land titles run back a long way on the peninsula of Delaware and Maryland. One Aldrich, a farmer in Northern Delware, sold a farm not many years ago, and the title deeds that he passed were dated well back into the seventeenth century, and they bore the signature of the Indian chief from whom the land was originally bought. The property up to the recent sale had descended in the family by inheritance. When the United States government was seeking to erect a structure on Wallup's Island, a sand patch off the coast of Accomac county, Virginia, one Sneed came along with a seventeenth century title, and gave no end of trouble before his claims were satisfied.