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Each book contains a name index to grantors, grantees, and other parties.

Series A3074, Abstracts and indexes of deeds, indexes this series by grantor, grantee, and location.

Series A0479 Index to deeds and mortgages, partly indexes deeds by name of grantor and grantee.

Series A4688, Grantor index to deeds and other miscellaneous documents recorded or filed by the Secretary of State, indexes this series by grantor.

Series A4689, Grantee index to deeds and other documents recorded or filed by the Secretary of State and Office of General Services, indexes this series by grantee.

This series is partially indexed by Series A4690, Location index to deeds and other documents recorded or filed by the Secretary of State and Office of General Services; by Series A4691, Location index to releases to the state; by Series A4694, Old index to field books and maps; and by Series A4695, Bureau of Land Management Index to maps. Lists of academy charters recorded and delivered, found in Series B1447 Volume 1, effectively index charters recorded in this series.

Maps in deed books are indexed in David E. E. Mix, Catalogue of Maps and Surveys in the Offices of the Secretary of State, State Engineer and Surveyor, and Comptroller (Albany, 1859), pages 125-133.

Maps in deed books are indexed in Freeborn G. Jewett, comp., Catalogue of Records of the Office of Secretary of State (Albany: 1898), pages 32-123.

Certain documents are published in Victor Hugo Paltsits, ed., Minutes of the Executive Council of the Province of New York: Administration of Francis Lovelace 1668-1673, 2 vols. (Albany: 1910).

Documents relating to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard are published in Franklin B. Hough, ed., Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket; With Documents Relating to the Original Settlement of That Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Other Islands Adjacent, Known as Dukes County, While Under the Colony of New York; Compiled from Official Records in the Office of the Secretary of State at Albany, New York (Albany: 1856).

Naturalizations and denizations of aliens recorded in the colonial deed books are abstracted in Kenneth Scott and Kenn Stryker-Rodda, Denizations, Naturalizations, and Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New York (Baltimore: 1975) (entries starting ca. 1700), and in Terri Bradshaw O'Neill, "Naturalizations in the New York Secretary of State Deeds," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 139 (2008), 18-25 (additional entries, 1686-1717).

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