New York State Office of General Services Bureau of Land Management Grantee Index to Colonial Patents

Alphabetical by name of grantee.

This series consists of a microfilm copy of a card index of the names of people who were granted land (grantees) by the colonial government of New York prior to the American Revolution. This series indexes the colonial letters patent in New York State Archives Record Series 12943, Letters Patent.

The index cards include the names of grantees; date of the letters patent; book and page number of the letters patent; and location. The cards also include a short description of the land that can include names of adjoining landowners; street names; outbuildings; acreage; bodies of water; lot numbers; tract names; current location of land; and other similar descriptive information.

4 microfilm reels : positive; 35 mm. Microfilmed at the Office of General Services in 1973 by the Genealogical Society of Utah, microfilm reels 947842-947845. Cataloged by the GSU as part of a collection called "Patents of the State of New York, 1649-1912." GSU microfilm has been digitized by FamilySearch. Images can be viewed online at FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries (including the New York State Archives and the New York State Library).

Series 12943, Letters Patent, is partially indexed by this series.

Reel list.

This accession resulted from work by Archives staff in October 1999 to integrate or accession estrayed or unidentified records.

Microfilm is not available for duplication or interlibrary loan.