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New York State Surveyor General Records of Applications for and Sales of Forfeited Estates and Military Lots


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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:
This volume contains applications for the survey and purchase of unclaimed lots in the Military Tract or lots on estates confiscated from Loyalists during the Revolutionary War. Each application gives the date; name of purchaser; lot number and location; price; and by whom forfeited (if a forfeited estate). Sometimes acreage and cost of survey and appraisal is included.
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Records of applications for and sales of forfeited estates and military lots
Quantity:

0.3 cubic feet

1 volume

Inclusive Dates:
1783-1807
Series Number:
B0256

Arrangement

Topical and therein chronological.

Scope and Content Note

These are records of persons who specified and applied for the survey and purchase of unclaimed military lots or lots on estates forfeited by Loyalists during the Revolution.

The volume provides: date; name of purchaser; lot number and location; acreage (sometimes); price; cost of survey and appraisal (sometimes); and by whom forfeited (if a forefeited estate). The volume also contains 15 certificates by Surveyor General Simeon DeWitt stating that designated persons had purchased and were entitled to specified lands along the Unadilla River, and an account of monies received for the survey and sale of townships along the river.

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