Research

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Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Land Tax Bureau

 

 

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This is a transcription of the original receipt book listing land grants issued by Gerrit Smith in 1846, when he made a gift of 3,000 deeds to African Americans and poor white people. The book lists the following information relating to these grants: county name; township; tract; lot; quarter of lot; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

42

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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Abstract:  

Canal Commissioners were required to take receipts for all expenditures and to settle accounts with the comptroller relating to construction of a harbor or basin at Buffalo and Black Rock (western terminus of the Erie Canal). This series consists of accounts (receipts and bills) for expenditures by .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

43

Creator:

New York House of Refuge

 

 

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Abstract:  

These receipts document expenses for the construction of buildings and related facilities on Randall's Island. Information on receipts include date; amount paid; service for which paid; and signature of payee. Expenditures were for: plans and related architectural work for buildings; surveys and maps; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

44

Creator:

New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of a small quantity of resignations, submitted by officers resigning their commissions, forwarded to the Adjutant General's Office. The resignation will normally provide the name of the individual resigning, rank, regiment, date, and reason for resignation. The remainder of the .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

45

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of invoices, receipts, and vouchers documenting Auburn Prison purchases of food, equipment, and supplies. For each purchase, the records contain an invoice submitted by the contractor listing the items delivered, date delivered, and price; a receipt from the prison with date items .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

46

Creator:

New York State Library

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of transfer documentation primarily concerned with land records transferred among offices of the Secretary of State, the Office of General Services (OGS), the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the New York State Library. Records include a list of maps, field books, inventories, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

47

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of receipts for articles delivered to the storekeeper from various departments of the Syracuse State School (e.g., knitting room, mending department, and sewing department). Each sheet lists the department from which the items were received; date; and the quantity, size, and description .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

48

Creator:

Syracuse State School

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of volumes recording monies received by the Syracuse State School for support of pupils (perhaps private pay). Information includes date, name of payee, amount received, student name, and initials of the official receiving the funds. There are no entries for the period January 9, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

49

Creator:

New York (State). Education Department

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of documents from individual schools received by the Education Department acknowledging receipt from the department of wooden plaques bearing bronze impressions of the seal issued by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, and giving assurances that the plaques and medals would .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

50

Creator:

New York (State). Militia Volunteers. Regiment, 2nd. Company B

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of descriptive lists, correspondence, extracts of courts martial, discharges, furloughs, special orders, general orders, receipts, invoices, quarterly returns of ordnance stores, and muster out rolls. Most of these documents deal with Company B of Regiment 2 of the Militia Volunteers. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

51

Creator:

New York State Library

 

 

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Abstract:  

These are small amounts of unrelated archival materials from several sources. They were gathered and retained by the State Library but remained unprocessed prior to transfer to the State Archives as state government records..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

52

Creator:

New York (State). Auditing Board

 

 

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This series consists of miscellaneous claims, correspondence, vouchers, and receipts received and audited by the Auditing Board. A law of 1862 appointed the Inspector General, Judge Advocate General and Quartermaster General to constitute an auditing board to examine claims "incurred in the organization, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

53

Creator:

Western House of Refuge for Women (Albion, N.Y.)

 

 

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Abstract:  

The Superintendent's daily journals contain brief notations about activities involving inmates and staff of the Western House of Refuge for Women. Entries document daily institutional life in some detail and contain remarks on the weather and assessments of morale. Information includes inmates admitted, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

54

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of payrolls, correspondence, bills, receipts, contracts, abstracts of vouchers, and one resolution for various New York State asylums including: New York State Asylum for Idiots, New York Lunatic Asylum, Binghamton Asylum for the Insane, New York State .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives