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Scope and Content Note

This series consists of volumes containing summary information about land patents that the Colony of New York and the State of New York granted to military veterans. The first volume (A3123-05) contains abstracts of patents for parcels of land, chiefly in the Hudson Valley region, that colonial authorities granted in 1764-1775 to officers and enlisted men who had served in the French and Indian War. The second volume (A3123-78) contains abstracts of patents for lands in northern and central New York that the state granted in 1790-1797 to veterans of the Revolutionary War. Both volumes include abstracts of patents granting lands that New York subsequently ceded to Vermont.

Each abstract states the date on which the patent was granted, the name of the patentee(s), the name of the locality in which the land parcel was situated at the time of granting, the number of acres granted, the lot number, and the name of the town and county in which the parcel was located at the time these volumes were compiled (ca. 1820). Each volume contains an alphabetical name index of lead patentees and a geographic index of towns in which patents were granted. This series also includes an undated manuscript, "List of the 100 Acre Lots in the Military Tract and also in the Town of Benson sold at public Auction, July 12-17, 1796."