New York Colony Treasurer's Office Abstracts of Warrants ("Payments from the Public Chest")
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Overview of the Records
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Scope and Content Note
According to a survey conducted prior to the New York State Capitol building fire of 1911, this series originally contained "abstracts of warrants, the numbers on the warrants corresponding with those in volume 6 of Licenses and Warrants and volumes 7 and 8 of Treasury Warrants." These volumes were part of what J. V. N. Yates referred to as "Miscellaneous Manuscripts" in his 1820 catalogue of records in the Office of the Secretary of State. Warrants were issued by the governor authorizing the state treasurer to pay specified sums to persons who provided goods or services to the State of New York. See "Report on the Public Archives of New York," in Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1900, Vol. 2: Report of the Public Archives Commission (Albany: Government Printing Office, 1901).
Volume 6 of Licenses and Warrants was destroyed in the 1911 Capitol fire. The surviving portion of Volume 7 of Treasury Warrants is now part of State Archives Series A1887, entitled Treasury Warrants; Volume 8 was destroyed in the 1911 fire.
Related Material
A1887 Treasury Warrants, 1702-1704, 1732-1776, contains the sole surviving volume referenced by this series.
Access Restrictions
This series is closed to research due to severe burn damage suffered during the New York State Capitol building fire of 1911.