Delaware. Original Land Titles in Delaware Commonly Known as the Duke of York
Record: Being an Authorized Transcript from the Official Archives of the State of Delaware, and
Comprising the Letters Patent, Permits, Commissions, Surveys, Plates and Confirmations by the
Duke of York, and Other High Officials, from 1646 to 1679. Wilmington, DE: Sunday Star Print, 1903.
LOCATION: Morris Library (F167 .D31 1903a)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F167 .D31x 1903)
Referred to as the Duke of York Records.
Hitchens, E. Dallas. Milford, Delaware and Milford Area After 1776: Land Records
Study of Upper Sussex and Lower Kent Co., Delaware. Delaware Genealogical Society Special
Publication, no. 4. Wilmington, DE: Delaware Genealogical Society, 1985.
LOCATION: Morris Library (F174 .M5 H55x 1985)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F174 .M6 H57 1985)
Kent County. Recorder of Deeds. Deed Book Index. Dover: Public Archives
Commission, 1951.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Microforms (Microfilm no. 4123)
Myers, Albert Cook, ed. Walter Wharton's Land Survey Register, 1675-1679,
West Side of Delaware River, from New Castle County, Delaware, into Bucks County,
Pennsylvania.
Wilmington, DE: Historical Society of Delaware, 1955.
LOCATION: Morris Library (F167 .W48)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F167 .W48)
New Castle County. Recorder of Deeds. Deed Books, 1673-1850.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Microforms (Microfilm S 334)
Grantor and grantee indexes are at Microfilm S 334.1 and S 334.2, respectively.
New Castle County. Recorder of Deeds. Land Warrants, 1671-1679, and Penn's
Warrants, 1684-1742.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Microforms (Microfilm no. 85)
The Land Warrants is followed by a name index; Penn's
Warrants does not have a name index.
New Castle County. Recorder of Deeds. Land Warrants and
Land Surveys, 1684-1766.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Microforms (Microfilm no. 86)
Some plats accompany Land Warrants. Name index precedes Land
Surveys.
New Castle County, Delaware Land Records, 1728-1738:
Deed Records I-1, K-1 (Missing Pages 1 Through 212 Which Cover the Period,
2 Dec 1731-May 1734), L-1.
Published: Lewes, DE. : Delmarva Roots, c2001.
LOCATION: Morris Library (F 172 .N5 G393x 2001)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F 172 .N5 G393x 2001)
Transcriptions from the original records at Delaware Public Archives.
New Castle County, Delaware Land Records: Deed Book-Z-1, June 1770-June
1773, Deed Book-B-2, July 1774-Feb. 1777. [Venice, FL]: [C. Garrett,
c2004].
LOCATION: Morris Library (F172.N5 G398 2004)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F172.N5 G398 2004)
DELCAT Examples
Browse by subject:
deeds--[name of state]--[name of county]
land grants--[name of state]
land titles--[name of state]
land tenure--[name of state]
New Castle County (Del.) -- Genealogy
[name of county] [state abbreviation]--genealogy
See "Court, Land & Probate Records" and "Advanced Search, Browse...
by state".
Delaware Genealogical Research Guide. 3d ed. Wilmington, DE:
Delaware Genealogical Society, 2002.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref F163 .D349 2002)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F163 .D349 2002)
The most important guide for doing genealogical research in Delaware. It covers specific types of records and where they can be found in the state. Edited by Thomas P. Doherty and published by the Delaware Genealogical Society (http://delgensoc.org).
Many land records sources are received in microfilm or microfiche. It is especially important to check this listing because not all microform materials in the library collection are included in DELCAT.
Schaefer, Christina K. Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas: A
Complete Digest of the Records of All the Countries of the
Western Hemisphere. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1998.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E18 .S33x 1998)
