Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Title:
Series:
A3271
Dates:
1683-1767
Abstract:
This series consists of transcriptions of New York Council Minutes and New York Council Papers (also known as "Colonial Manuscripts"). Transcriptions of Council minutes (Series A1895) span the period 1712-1767; transcriptions of Council papers (Series A1894) span the period 1683-1755..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
22
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council
Abstract:
This series consists of bound volumes of minutes of the legislative and executive sessions of the Council of the Colony of New York. The council shared executive and legislative powers with the governor. Minutes include laws, orders, and resolutions concerning the court system, land titles, land development, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
23
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
24
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council
Title:
Series:
A1455
Dates:
1686-1775
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
25
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Probates
Abstract:
This series consists of wills, grants of administration, and (prior to ca. 1710) inventories and accounts of decedent estates. These documents were recorded and maintained by New York Colony's Prerogative Court and then by the State Court of Probates. Many of the wills were made by widows; several executors .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
26
Creator:
New York (State). Treasurer's Office
Title:
Series:
A3210
Dates:
1721-1729, 1779-1788
Abstract:
This series consists of accounts of revenues and expenditures recorded by the Treasurer of New York Colony, 1721-1729, and tax assessment lists submitted by Superintendents of Taxes to the Treasurer of New York State, 1779-1788. The records document the first, second, and third wards of the City of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
27
Creator:
New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Title:
Series:
A4406
Dates:
1674-1761
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
28
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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