Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Secretary of State
Abstract:
Mortgages to the state were required to be registered in the Secretary of State's office. This series contains mortgages primarily for lands sold by the state in patents and former Indian reservations. Information includes mortgagor, property description and mortgage terms. Many mortgages were discharged .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Secretary of State
Abstract:
This series contains recorded copies of releases to the state entered in chronological order by date of recording. Most, if not all, of the releases in books 1 and 3 are recorded copies of the originals found in Series A0451, Original Releases to the State. Releases from the Attorney General and the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
3
Creator:
New York (State). Department of State. Bureau of Miscellaneous Records
Abstract:
This series consists of the recorded copies of "deeds and title papers" which were filed primarily in Series A0464, Original Deeds and Title Papers. The documents are described more fully in that series, but in general they are deeds or leases to the United States and to New York State, releases of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Title:
Series:
A0464
Dates:
1855-1975
Abstract:
This series contains original deeds or releases to the State of New York, leases from the state to private individuals or business firms, certified copies of deeds to the United States for government facilities (including cessions of jurisdiction for military and naval installations), and easements .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Abstract:
The published version of the Balloting Book contains documents and lists relating to the allotment of bounty lands in the Military Tract in central New York and includes. names of soldiers by regiment with location and acreage of grant and date of patent. Also provided are lists of officers and soldiers .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Secretary of State
Abstract:
This single volume series indexes deeds recorded by the Secretary of State during the period 1641-1846, encompassing Series A0453, Deed Books 1-42 and 43 (in part). An alphabetical index to grantees and grantors is provided for each deed book. The back of the volume contains an index to mortgages to .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Abstract:
This series consists of releases of right and claim to property by individuals to the State of New York. Almost all of the releases convey real property to the state. Releases are for lands erroneously granted by letters patent; purchased by the state for public buildings; seized during the Revolutionary .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Abstract:
This volume contains recorded copies of three partition deeds for Adirondack Forest Preserve Lands owned in common by the state and private parties, executed pursuant to the Laws of 1895, Chapter 273. There is also a deed to the United States for land on Staten Island and accompanying deeds of cession .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
A1052
Dates:
1805-1813
Abstract:
This series consists of bonds relating to land purchased in Lots 11 and 12 of the Old Military Tract. Bonds provide name and residence of purchaser; amount of bond; date; location of parcel; and terms of payment. Bonds were taken by the comptroller pursuant to Chapter 106 of the Laws of 1803, which .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Secretary of State
Abstract:
These volumes were prepared during the nineteenth century from the original books of deeds in series A0453. Record of Deeds, 1652-1884. They contain brief abstracts of the subjects of most deeds recorded in that series. Each volume has grantor and grantee name indexes, and location and subject index.........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Ontario (N.Y. : County)
Abstract:
This series consists of microfilm copies of Ontario County recorded deeds, arranged chronologically in consecutively numbered libers..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
12
Creator:
New York (State). Division of Science and State Museum
Abstract:
This series indexes maps found in Series A0453, Record of Deeds; A0464, Original Deeds and Title Papers; 12945, Miscellaneous Deeds and Title Papers; A0451, Original Releases to the State; and A0461, Town Boundary Establishment and Alteration Reports. The series also indexes maps in several groups of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
Creator:
New York (State). Surveyor General
Abstract:
Returns of surveys of state land in this series include name of governor or lieutenant governor; for whom land was surveyed; county and location of land; survey data; date of survey; and name of Surveyor General..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
14
Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Abstract:
The Holland Land Company was an association of Dutch banks and other investors speculating in American land during the late 1700s. This series consists of records of persons who purchased and were deeded lands from the Holland Land Company. Each table apparently records sales from a particular geographic .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
15
Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Title:
Series:
B0279
Dates:
1799-1842
Abstract:
This series consists of ledgers of accounts with purchasers of lots or portions thereof in townships of the Holland Land Purchase. Accounts include name of purchaser, sale date, location, lot and section number, debits and credits by date, principal, and interest. Also included are maps of lots in the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
16
Creator:
New York (State). Office of General Services. Bureau of Land Management
Abstract:
This series consists of upland application files documenting grant, easement, lease, permit, transfer of jurisdiction, and license transactions of state lands during the years 1799-1916 and 1954-2001. Other transactions documented in this series include state surplus real property; gold, silver, mineral, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
17
Creator:
New York (State). Secretary of State
Title:
Series:
A0453
Dates:
1640-1884
Abstract:
THis series contains copies of conveyances (deeds and mortgages), and many other types of private and public documents recorded by the Secretary of the colony of New York, 1664-1783, and by the Secretary of State, 1783-1890. Series also includes applications for and copies of academy charters granted .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Steuben (N.Y. : County). County Clerk
Title:
Series:
A1108
Dates:
1788-1909
Abstract:
Records on this microfilm relate mostly to surveys, sales, and conveyances of lands in western New York owned by the Pulteney family of Great Britain. Sir William Pulteney (with others) purchased the unsold lands of the (Oliver) Phelps and (Nathaniel) Gorham syndicate in 1792. Records consist of letter .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Surveyor General
Abstract:
These survey maps were made for landholders, for partitioning of land, and for disposition of as yet unappropriated lands. Most maps depict areas of eastern upstate New York; some show lands bordering on or within Vermont. The maps generally provide: name, location, or number of the town, tract, patent, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Division of Science and State Museum
Abstract:
This series contains a name index of people who were granted land by the state government of New York after the American Revolution..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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