Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (Colony). Treasurer's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of accounts of land grants in the counties of Cumberland, Tryon, Charlotte, Albany, and Gloucester. Records are burned around the edges. Records must be se under supervision of an archivist..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Commissioners of the Land Office
Abstract:
The Commissioners of the Land Office were appointed to direct the disposition and granting of unappropriated state lands. This series consists of minutes documenting the approval, rejection, or direction of other actions concerning land grant applications and related land matters..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Abstract:
This series consists of a partial set of volumes containing summary information about land patents awarded by New York Colony and New York State. The volumes abstract, in rough chronological order, patents awarded from 1664-1679 and 1695-1842; however, patents awarded to veterans of the French and Indian .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (Colony). Secretary
Abstract:
This series consists of severely burned fragments of original drafts of letters patent issued by the governor of the province of New York in the name of the king of England. Prior to the New York State Capitol fire of 1911, the series most likely included six volumes of original drafts, arranged in .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (Colony). Treasurer's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of abstracts of land grants held by the Treasurer's Office. Information includes Governor's name and date, patentees, rents reserved and other services, book and folio, denomination and description of the land, and observations. Land grants for the following counties are listed: .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Office of General Services. Division of Land Utilization
Abstract:
The series consists of maps depicting grants of land under water made by the state from 1777 through the 1900s. Each map depicts the names of individuals to whom grants were made..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Surveyor General
Abstract:
This series serves as a record of original grants of state land to private owners, listing persons who received patents for New York State lands. Settlers seeking land grants applied to the governor, who ordered the surveyor general to survey the requested land before approving the grant. Information .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Secretary of State
Abstract:
The letter books consist of handwritten and typewritten copies of outgoing correspondence sent by the New York Secretary of State. The letters deal with various subjects, including the publication and dissemination of state laws; applications for land grants; resolutions of the Commissioners of the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Board of Appraisers
Abstract:
This series contains geographical indexes to lands conveyed by the State of New York by letters patent. Information includes: lot number; acreage; name of patentee; date of patent; and volume and page number reference to the patent in series 12943, Letters Patent..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Commissioners of the Land Office
Abstract:
The Commissioners of the Land Office were responsible for the approval, rejection, or direction of other actions concerning land grant applications and related land matters. This series consists of a register of actions taken on land grant applications and related land matters. Information includes .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Abstract:
This series consists of letters patent to William Basset for lot 95 in the Township of Homer, Montgomery County. One hundred acres in the southeast corner is reserved to the state, and five of every one hundred acres is to be reserved for highways. The patent was issued with the condition that the settlement .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Office of General Services. Bureau of Land Management
Abstract:
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
13
Creator:
New York (State). Secretary of State
Title:
Series:
A0487
Dates:
1664-1786
Abstract:
This series consists of the original engrossed (or final) letters patent and military patents, which were transcribed pursuant to Chapter 13 of the Laws of 1786. That law states that these volumes were "by various accidents so injured that a frequent Recourse to them may render them illegible." The .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Abstract:
This volume contains abstracts of patents for bounty lands granted to Revolutionary War veterans, copies of which are in series A0447, Military Patents. Information includes: date of letters patent; name of patentee; name of township; lot number; acreage and county and town where lot was located ca. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Secretary of State
Abstract:
These volumes include surveys of land in the State's New Military Tract granted to veterans for service during the Revolution. They generally provide date of the survey; surveyors' names; name of patent and/or a narrative description of the land surveyed; narrative description; acreage of each lot; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Abstract:
This series consists primarily of Lake George survey maps assessing water levels and gauge readings. Also included are three other maps pertaining to land boundaries and ownership that were also filed in the Office of the State Engineer and Surveyor: lots in Macomb's Purchase and Arthursborough Patent, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Secretary of State
Abstract:
The series consists of applications for grants of unappropriated land by letters patent from New York Colony and State. Along with the applications are related reports, surveys, maps, warrants for surveying lands and drafting of letters patent, objections to title, and letters..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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