Land Patent for the Town of Harpersfield, NY

This is the bottom page, and also forms the enclosure in which all pages inside are housed.
It is the King's page and on it, the words begin "George the Third by the grace of God
of Great Britain France and Ireland King defendor of the faith and so forthe . . . . . . . . . . . .

It was no small ego that made certain that these words began each proclaimation and decree.