New York State Comptroller's Office Abstracts of Sales of Lands for Unpaid Quit Rents, Road and Marsh Taxes, and U.S. Direct Tax

Arranged by type of sale, then chronological by sale year.

The U.S. government levied a direct property tax in 1798. The state Comptroller collected delinquent taxes for this direct tax. Assessment for the U.S. direct tax was used for the 1799 state tax. The tax-sale of 1808 was conducted by the Comptroller for instances of nonpayment of the U.S. direct tax.

This series consists of brief typewritten abstracts of information concerning unpaid quit rents, road and marsh taxes, and direct taxes (levied by the United States government). When and for what purpose the abstracts were prepared is unknown. Each entry usually contains only name of tract, lot number, and numbers of acres.

B1621-05:This accretion consists of handwritten abstracts documenting sales of lands for non-payment of U.S. Direct Tax of 1798 for the years 1803-1804. Some notices of unpaid taxes are also included. Information includes name of tax collector, name of owner or alleged owner, name of occupant, location of land, amount of taxes and other costs, names purchasers, amount paid, and quantity of land sold.

B1611 Registers of Payments, Sales, Redemptions, and Conveyances of Delinquent Quit Rents

B1607 Accounts of Taxes Owed to the State for Road Construction and Marsh Drainage

B0950 Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates

Volumes contain alphabetical indexes of names of tracts or patents.

B1621-05: This accession resulted from a project by State Archives staff in 2005 to identify, describe, and accession previously unidentified records.

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