Are County Court Order patents restricted to “white males over the age of 21”?
The statutes defining the patenting process for the County Court Order Series do not list exclusions for age, race or gender. Survey names and grant names indicate women have received County Court Order patents as well as African-Americans before and after the Civil War. We cannot determine the number of Native Americans involved in the patent process as no application listing ethnic background is required to purchase a warrant in the County Court Order Series.
