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Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of minutes, in Dutch, documenting civil and criminal cases, and executive and legislative matters over which the Council of the Colony of New York had jurisdiction. The minutes constitute a record of such actions as appointments, proclamations, ordinances, charters, and opinions. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of minutes, in Dutch, documenting civil and criminal cases, and executive and legislative matters over which the Council of the Colony of New York had jurisdiction. The minutes constitute a record of such actions as appointments, proclamations, ordinances, charters, and opinions. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series contains administrative correspondence, in Dutch, of Petrus Stuyvesant during his seventeen year term as director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647-1664. The bulk of the series consists of incoming letters from the directors in Amsterdam and the governors of neighboring colonies. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series contains letters, minutes, and other administrative documents, in Dutch, created by the West India Company during its struggle to dominate trade and establish trading posts on the South (Delaware) River. The records, generated in the Delaware region and sent to New Amsterdam, largely relate .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (Colony). Council.

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series contains legal and administrative records, in English and Dutch, documenting the period of English control over the Delaware region by colonial governors Richard Nicholls, Francis Lovelace, and Edmund Andros. The records include correspondence, reports, petitions, accounts, survey-returns, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

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Abstract:  

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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Abstract:  

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 Netherland. Council

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series contains deeds, in Dutch, recorded by the provincial secretary from September 5, 1652 until October 15, 1653. The provincial secretary was responsible for recording all land transactions in New Netherland. Most of the deeds document the conveyance of real property between private individuals .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Secretary of State

 

 

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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 (Colony). Council

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of photostat and microfilm reproductions of transcripts of New York Council minutes (executive and legislative sessions) and Assembly proceedings from 1686-1775. The transcripts were evidently prepared by the Secretary of the Province of New York or his deputy, and were transmitted .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of typewritten transcripts of New York Colonial Council minutes created as part of an abandoned effort to publish Council minutes from the period after 1673. The transcripts contain extensive edits and annotations in pencil, as well as references to the volume and pages of either .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Secretary of State

 

 

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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