New York State Assembly Transcripts of Reports Regarding Claims for Revolutionary War Service

Arranged by subject.

These transcripts were prepared by the clerk of the assembly in response to an assembly resolution of April 8, 1819, directing him to collect and transcribe specified records for reference by the legislature. Transcripts were written between 1819 and 1823. The compiled records document petitions and compensation awarded to individuals for Revolutionary War service or for losses resulting from the war. Most records are reports to the Assembly by committees or commissions who made decisions concerning petitions for bounty lands or for monetary compensation.

The volume contains transcripts of: the assembly resolution directing the assembly clerk to transcribe these records, 1819; resolutions regarding distribution of bounty lands to Revolutionary War officers and troops, 1783; names, ranks, and commission dates of officers in four New York regiments, arranged from highest to lowest rank (above private) in each regiment; names and numbers of townships in the Military Tract; the "Balloting Book" maintained in the office of the Secretary of State, listing for each New York regiment each soldier's name (roughly alphabetical), rank, township name and lot number of the bounty land awarded, and acreage of the lot awarded, 1785-1790 (series A0476, Register of Military Bounty Land Grants, is an 1825 published edition of The Balloting Book, and Other Documents Relating to Military Bounty Lands, in the State of New York);

alphabetical list of persons awarded bounty land and to whom they delivered patents to the land; reports of the assembly and senate committees of claims and their predecessor committees, and occasional reports to the Assembly from the comptroller, attorney general, or surveyor general, concerning petitions for land or money for Revolutionary War service--these reports are located in several places throughout the volume; joint report of the treasurer, auditor, and attorney general on claims for Revolutionary War service, 1792--the three state officials acted as commissioners appointed under Chapter 20, Laws of 1790, to examine accounts and claims and to report their opinions to the legislature; and reports of the Onondaga commissioners concerning settlement of disputed land titles in the Military Tract in Onondaga County, 1800-1802--some original reports of the Onondaga Commissioners (not those in this series) are in series A1827, Correspondence, Petitions, and Reports on Defense of the Frontier, Onondaga Salt Springs, and Other Subjects.

Some original reports of the Assembly Committee of Claims and its predecessor committees are in series A1822, Reports on Petitions for Bounty Lands for Revolutionary War Service. Original reports of the comptroller are in series A1821, Comptroller's Reports on Petitions to the State Legislature. Original attorney general's reports are in series A1819, Attorney General's Reports on Petitions to the State Legislature. Original surveyor general's reports are in series A1820, Surveyor General's Reports on Petitions to the State Legislature.

These records survived the 1911 State Capitol fire without damage.

Microfilm is available for use at the New York State Archives or through interlibrary loan.

Alphabetical name index to petitioners in back of volume.

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