Research

Scope and Content Note

B1605-99: These records were created during the few years of the 1850s when the county treasurers, not the state comptroller, conducted non-resident tax sales. The volume for 1854 (Albany-Greene counties) is missing.

Information is given in columnar form and includes county; name of town; number of lot; name of tract or description; number of acres; valuation; amount of tax; date of payment; name of person paying tax; total tax; interest; charges (expenses incurred related to maintenance and sale of the property); total; part sold; quantity sold; name of purchaser; date of redemption; by whom redeemed; amount and date paid to the state treasurer; amount and date paid to the county treasurer; and date of refund. It is unclear to whom the refund was paid.

Three volumes entitled "Outstanding" apparently duplicate information recorded in other volumes. For what purpose and by whom these volumes were created is unclear, but they may have been used to track refunds either to the county treasurer or to the purchaser of the property if it was later redeemed by the original owner.

B1605-99A: This one-volume accretion documents tax sales of non-resident lands for unpaid taxes, conducted by county treasurers in 1896.