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Patents for lands within the present five boroughs of New York City are published in Seymann, comp., Colonial Charters, Patents and Grants to the Communities Comprising the City of New York.

Patents for lands lying within present-day Vermont are published in Mary Greene Nye, ed., State Papers of Vermont, Vol. 7: "New York Land Patents 1688-1786 Covering Land Now Included in the State of Vermont (Not Including Military Patents)" (n.p.: 1947).

Records of denizations and naturalizations found in the colonial patent books are abstracted in Kenneth Scott, Denizations, Naturalizations, and Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New York (Baltimore: 1975).