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Creator:

New York (State). Department of State

 

 

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Most records pertain to land conveyed and dedicated to erecting monuments and markers of the location of New York military units during the battle of Gettysburg. Included are transmittal letters, agreements, legislative bills, correspondence, maps, deeds of conveyance and dedications. Information includes .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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

 

 

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This series consists of draft or executed deeds for lands sold for unpaid taxes and not redeemed. Deeds cite specific laws authorizing tax sales but are otherwise in the standard form of a deed. A law of 1823 provided that when land taxes were unpaid for a period of two years the land would be sold. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Commissioners of the Canal Fund

 

 

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This series consists of deeds, mortgages, bonds, assignments and traced maps of lots in Buffalo. The land was conveyed to the Commissioners of the Canal Fund as collateral for two judgments against Thadeus W. Patchin, bankrupt, in 1874. In 1881 the Commissioners of the Canal Fund empowered the State .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (Colony). Governor

 

 

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This series contains mostly warrants of survey but includes also a few unrelated legal documents. Colonial governors ordered surveys of all lands for which settlers applied for purchase. The warrants are the governor's orders to the surveyor general to carry out the survey. They provide name of governor; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Round Lake (N.Y. : Village)

 

 

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Microfilmed records include a variety of administrative, land, and fiscal records from the Village of Round Lake, and also records of its predecessor, the (Methodist Episcopal) Round Lake Camp Meeting Association (1868-1945), which owned and used land in the Round Lake area..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Highland Falls (N.Y. : Village)

 

 

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Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Office of General Services. Bureau of Land Management

 

 

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This series consists of applications for grants to lands under water. Each file typically consists of an application and accompanying map. Information on the application includes applicant name; date; attorney's name; notes related to the final determination of application; date patent was ordered to .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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New York (State). Governor's Love Canal Inter-Agency Task Force

 

 

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This series consists of files generated by commissioner William C. Hennessy, while serving as chairman of an emergency multi-agency task force on the Love Canal disaster. Files also contain records sent to Hennessey's office in Albany from the DOT regional office in Buffalo. That office managed department .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Department of State

 

 

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The series consists of field books, notes, maps, and deeds relating to the Holland Land Company's lands in the western part of New York State. Records include the original field books from the surveys of 1798 and 1799, which provide a systematic survey of the Holland Land Purchase; field notes (journals) .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

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This series consists predominantly of land patents, in Dutch, through which the director-general and council of New Netherland allowed private individuals to take possession of land in freehold, as opposed to the previous policy of only granting permission to hold land for cultivation. Also included .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

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This series contains patents issued under the administration of Dutch Governor Anthony Colve, and a few private deeds from the same period. In one notable document, Governor Colve granted the Lutheran congregation in Albany free exercise of their religion (September 26, 1673)..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York State Canal Corporation

 

 

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This series was created by the Canal Corporation of the Thruway Authority to establish state property boundaries adjacent to the Northern and Southern Reservoir Systems. It consists primarily of maps and structure drawings of the Northern and Southern Reservoirs of the Barge Canal. Most maps relate .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Department of Law. Bureau of Real Property

 

 

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This series consists of deed files concerning the transfer of real property between private individuals and railroad companies. A typical file contains original deeds describing the amount paid for the real property; exact description of property being conveyed; seller(s) and buyer(s); signatures of .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

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The land appropriation files contain comprehensive legal documentation of the process by which the state acquired lands for the Barge Canal system (pursuant to Laws of 1909, Chapter 391, as amended), and of the state's title to those lands. The files document not only the transfer of legal title to .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Secretary of State

 

 

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This series contains Indian deeds treaties or deeds of cession. Most of the colonial Indian deeds cede lands located in the Mohawk and upper Susquehanna Valley from the native owners to the king of Great Britain. The post-Revolutionary War documents generally take the form of a deed of cession from .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Secretary of State

 

 

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This series contains Indian treaties or deeds of cession and related documents filed by the secretary of state. The native groups involved in the treaties filed in this series were the Oneida, Brothertown, Stockbridge, Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca, and Onondaga Indians, and the Seven Nations of Canada. The .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives