Who was first granted the land where the Sheldon Farmhouse was built?
Sheldon Farmhouse Sheldon Farmhouse is a historic home located at Duanesburg in Schenectady County, New York. It was built about 1795 and is a two story, five bay, frame residence on a limestone foundation in a vernacular Federal style. It features a gable roof and interior end chimneys. Also on the property are two contributing barns.
Ancient planter "Ancient planter" was a term applied to early colonists who migrated to the Colony of Virginia in what is now the United States, when the colony was managed by the Virginia Company of London. They received land grants if they stayed in the colony for at least three years. Under the terms of the "Instructions to Governor Yeardley" (issued by the London Company in 1618), these colonists received the first land grants in Virginia.