This research group is devoted to placing all records relating to the Land Office, and land patenting process in Maryland on line and accessible to the public through the Maryland State Archives web site.

For an introduction to the land patenting process in Maryland and the early records relating to that process see  Elisabeth Hartsook and Gust Skordas. Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland. (Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1946).