Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of unprocessed records, apparently from the Comptroller's Office. Records include: applications to revoke redemptions; letters and telegrams from appraisers; assessment rolls and lists of construction expenditures; documents on rejection of taxes in 1908 returned from towns; miscellaneous .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Abstract:
This series consists of letters from the State Engineer and Surveyor regarding applications for land grants, usually lands under water, by individuals, businesses, or towns; scheduling and requests to publish notices of land sales; hearings notices on applications to work mines; requests for copies .........
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). State Engineer and Surveyor
Abstract:
This survey map of the village of Geddes, Onondaga County, was created by Deputy Surveyor John Randel, Jr. on the orders of Surveyor General Simeon DeWitt..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Abstract:
These are maps of surveys made for landholders, for partitioning of land, and for disposition of as yet unappropriated state lands. The Surveyor General and his successor State Engineer and Surveyor produced these maps in keeping with his responsibilities for surveying and mapping state lands. A number .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Surveyor General
Title:
Series:
A4010
Dates:
1788
Abstract:
These lots were in a tract set aside by New York State for grants to persons who lost land as a result of the New York-Vermont boundary dispute. The descriptions of lots provide lot number, boundaries, and number of acres in each lot..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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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 in the 1700s. The company purchased over five million acres in central and western New York and Pennsylvania. This series consists of Holland Land Company survey notes and includes survey data, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Abstract:
This series consists of payments made and monies received by the Surveyor General and State Engineer and Surveyor including payments for sale of state land. One volume recording payments and receipts includes date; voucher number; to whom paid or from whom received; and amount paid or received. Other .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Surveyor General
Abstract:
The Holland Land Company was an association of Dutch banks and other investors speculating in American land during the late 1700s. The company purchased over five million acres in central and western New York and Pennsylvania. This series consists of maps including purchaser's name; acreage and boundaries .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Abstract:
These indexes were created by the State Engineer's office to gain control of their maps and surveys. The indexes generally provide: name of town, tract, lot(s), or owner; volume and page number (if a land survey or purchase record); map number (if a map); and map case or portfolio letter or number (if .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Surveyor General
Abstract:
The Holland Land Company was an association of Dutch banks and other investors speculating in American land during the late 1700s. The company purchased over five million acres in central and western New York and Pennsylvania. This series consists of a portfolio of deeds (conveyances of real property) .........
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
13
Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Title:
Series:
B0261
Dates:
1839-1871
Abstract:
This series consists of expenditures of Surveyor General and State Engineer and Surveyor's Offices kept for the state's internal auditing needs. Expenses include newspaper advertisements of public land sales, printing and binding for other than advertising, surveying and appraising of land; employment .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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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). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
B0940
Dates:
1849-1854
Abstract:
This series contains statements that list lands of non-residents sold by county treasurers for unpaid taxes. Each statement gives the lot number; description of the parcel sold; acreage; name of the purchaser; number of acres sold; and amount received by the county treasurer..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
17
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
B0964
Dates:
1799-1831
Abstract:
Commissioners of the Land Office examined and settled claims against loyalists' lands confiscated and sold by the commissioners of forfeitures. Most claims were based on erroneous sales of land not subject to forfeiture, or the dower rights of widows of loyalists. These minutes locate and describe the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
The bulk of this series consists of documents from county clerks' offices that note various mortgages, land records, and U.S. Deposit Funds. Most of these documents have official seals and are stamped as "received by the New York State Comptroller's Office.".........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Secretary of State
Title:
Series:
B1868
Dates:
1786-1837
Abstract:
Escheated lands are defined as unclaimed, abandoned, or uninherited property that passes to the custody of the state. The first part of this series consists of statements of escheated lands in the Military Tract "for which no grants have been ordered by the Commissioners of the Land Office." The series .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Surveyor General
Abstract:
The index, which was compiled and maintained by the Surveyor General's Office, provides the name of county, town, tracts, patents, and purchases. State Archives Series A4019, Land survey field books, is indexed by these records..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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