Register of delivery of laws, patents, deeds, and other documents B1446

Register of delivery of laws, patents, deeds, and other documents

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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 series consists of registers or lists of summary information. Included are lists of towns to which state publications were delivered; pardons issued and delivered, listing slaves and their owners, other blacks, by name; patents delivered, after recording; receipts by counties of state official standard of long measure, documenting that some counties did not pick up their official yardstick until thirty years after issue date; and deeds, mortgages, releases, quit claims, and other instruments received for recording and delivered.

Creator:

New York (State). Department of State

Title:

Quantity:

0.3 cubic feet

1 volume

Inclusive Dates:

1795-1839

Bulk Dates:

(bulk 1800-1826

Series Number:

B1446

Scope and Content Note

The series consists of registers or lists containing summary information. Included are lists of towns to which state publications were delivered (1804-1821); pardons issued and delivered, listing slaves and their owners, other blacks, by name (1805-1807); patents delivered, after recording (1795-1826); receipts by counties of state official standard of long measure (1809-1939), documenting that some counties did not pick up their official yardstick until thirty years after it was issued; and deeds, mortgages, releases, quit claims, and other instruments which were received for recording and delivered (ca. 1800-1823).

Related Material

Series B0042, Executive Pardons, contains related records on pardons issued and delivered.

Custodial History

This volume was originally accessioned in 1978 as volume 10 of series A0321, Distribution Lists of State Publications. The volume was culled to form a separate series by State Archives staff in June 1996.