You will have no trouble following the process through from entitlement to issuance of title/patent/grant if you substitute the word "buyer" for "assignee." Just bear several caveats in mind regarding how title to any commodity or asset may change hands, such as: sale in fee simple; bequest by will; inheritance from intestate estate; seizure and sale on behalf of creditor including an unpaid taxing authority, unpaid surveyor, etc. Assignments may not have been recorded as deeds. One of my ancestors received a land warrant that was immediately sold to a speculator type (who also purchased others); conveyance was recorded on the back of the warrant. The warrants may change hands several times before used to claim land, and the chain of assignees may be at least partly recited in the issuing authority's first-title document and/or by the surveyor if the land available to the warrantee had not already been surveyed into lots (such as the NY Military Tracts). In some times and places, but especially when a lot of warrants were issued around the same time, there were opportunities for fraudsters to sell forged documents or just to write deeds selling entitlements. In the case of NY Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants there was enough such fraudulent activity that special procedures were set up to facilitate regularized sale of the entitlements, including specific identification of the veterans. So be on the lookout for an opportunity for someone to offer testimony or create other helpful narratives. Good hunting! Judy Kay writes: When a bounty land warrant was assigned to another individual for patent, did that happen through direct contact between the warrant holder and the assignee? Would the warrant holder and assignee have had to know each other?I've got Christine Rose's Military Bounty Land 1776-1855, but I can't find any explanation for how warrants were assigned. Any suggestions where I could learn how assignments worked?