New York State Library Manuscripts and History Section Partial Calendar of "Assembly Papers"

Numerical by page number within volumes into which Assembly Papers were bound.

This is a calendar to part of a series of State Assembly records known as "Assembly Papers" and previously bound into volumes. The calendar covers volumes 5 and 6 and pages 1-90 of volume 8, including records dating from 1774-1814.

Entries for each document are on separate 5" x 8" sheets providing: date of document if known; to whom document was addressed; names of petitioners or other persons involved; summary, sometimes very detailed, of document; number of pages; and volume and page number(s) in the Assembly Papers.

The records calendared include petitions from citizens and Assembly resolutions concerning: land grants, confirmations of titles to land, and other land matters; salt production at Onondaga Salt Springs; expenditures for roads, schools, agriculture; improvements in navigation of Hudson River; payment of debts or other compensation owed by state; construction of fortifications at New York City and organization of the military; and proposed amendments to U.S. constitution regarding qualifications of top federal office-holders.

Series A4682, "Assembly Papers" volumes 1-13 ("Miscellaneous") contains the original documents calendared by this series.

The calendar was compiled by State Library staff to facilitate access to information in the original records, which suffered burn damage in the State Capitol Fire of 1911.

Collation date 1934-1936.

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