Kay Withers, last month I went to Frankfort to see all the warrants that ended up in Robertson county. One was to (Governor) James Monroe for 4000+ acres. It was surveyed by Simon Kenton. For that he got about 1/3 to sell off to pay for the survey. This became the area between Claysville and Kentontown. Minor Winn got 4000 acres at Claysville. These were Treasury warrants, that is, from the Va. treasury. They appear to be just political gifts to people who never intended to set foot on any of it, just have it developed/sold off for money by someone else like John Kenton. Next to Monroe was 3200 acres to John Alexander Binns, the father of modern agriculture. His brother/father (I can't remember) was Charles Binns, son of Charles Binns, county clerks for Loudon co for 80 years! I presume Charles used his influence to have John given this grant. 1000 acres ended up in the hands of William Harding, Loudon county surveyor, who presumably got it for surveying. His widow and Charles Binns gave 500 acres to Elihu Harding, Williams brother. Elihu, also a surveyor, settled on the land, which became "Harding's ford", upstream from Claysville. Harding family descendants own much of that land to this day at the end of Harding Road off US62. I believe this whole process is documented in the indexes published by the KY Hist. Soc. for the warrants/grants/surveys. I believe Jillson(sp?) was an editor to these, I don't have the title/reference with me. jim dempsey At 10:59 AM 8/22/99 -0400, you wrote: >Could someone clarify for me what the word 'patent' means when it says >someone patented land? >What is the difference between treasury warrants and military warrants?