Research

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Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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This series consists of affidavits stating the grounds for cancellation of a Comptroller's tax sale. Grounds for cancellation were prior payment of taxes, erroneous tax assessment, or occupancy of the premises sold. The affidavits of occupancy include descriptions of farming or lumbering on the parcel .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

2

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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Abstract:  

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Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

3

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Land Tax Bureau

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of affidavits and certificates documenting land ownership, payment of real estate taxes and the location of land owned apparently compiled by local county officials and submitted to the Auditor General's later to the Comptroller's Office. Information includes landowners name; location .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

4

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Land Tax Bureau

 

 

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This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of correspondence, certificates, affidavits, copies of maps of land grants, surveys of patents and a list of persons forced to quit their farms for failure to pay quit rents. Most records are certificates and affidavits attesting to the amount of taxes .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

5

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of affidavits of purchasers of land at Comptroller's tax sales, stating that the land purchased was wholly unoccupied and vacant. The affidavits were filed with the Comptroller to prove that no occupant had rights to redeem land from the tax sale..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives