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Title

Writers Program working files of the District 2 supervisor's office

Series Number

A4191

Summary

This series mostly contains files of "field editorial copy" prepared by field workers in District 2 (Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Schoharie, and Ulster counties) for statewide and local writing projects such as New York: A Guide to the Empire State (published); Guide to Albany (published); New York State Encyclopedia; and New York State Almanac. Files may contain manuscript drafts of copy on subjects such as local history, biography and events; business and commercial establishments; and historic sites and structures.

Creator

• Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New York

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

State Directors' correspondence and reports files

Series Number

A4188

Summary

This series contains administrative files of the State Director of the Federal Writers' Project mostly from District Number 2 (Albany, Rensselaer, Greene, and Ulster Counties). Records include correspondence about administrative issues; WPA personnel record forms which include name, address family members, educational and work history; and daily time reports for the Troy office.

Creator

• Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New York

Access Restrictions

Personnel Record Forms are restricted to protect personal privacy for55 years after creation of form.

Title

Tax lists and assessment rolls

Series Number

A1201

Summary

This series contains lists of persons upon whom real and/or personal property taxes were levied in response to State tax legislation passed in 1779, 1786, 1787, and 1788. All of the tax lists in the series pertain to districts within Albany County. Lists vary slightly in format from year to year and even within the same year. All, however, feature the names of persons taxed in each district, in no discernible order, and the total amount of taxes owed by each person.

Creator

• New York (State). Treasurer's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this series.

Title

Otsego Northern Catskill Board of Cooperative Educational Services records

Series Number

A4664

Summary

This series contains microfilmed board of education minutes and other education records pertaining to a number of central school districts: Andes; Cherry Valley-Springfield; Cooperstown; Gilboa-Conesville; Hunter-Tannersville; Morris; Schenevus; South Kortright; Stamford; and Windham-Ashland-Jewett.

Creator

• Otsego Northern Catskill Board of Cooperative Educational Services (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Hunter town board meeting minutes and annual reports

Series Number

A4521

Creator

• Hunter (N.Y. : Town)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Cockburn field notes, land records, and maps

Series Number

B1773

Summary

This series is comprised of land records (survey notes, copies of deeds, maps, quit claims, and indentures) created or accumulated by William Cockburn, his sons William Jr. and James, and his grandson Walter A. Cockburn, and maintained by the Division of Lands and Forests. The series contains three small bound volumes; miscellaneous survey notes, drawings, and maps arranged by date; and one disbound folio containing miscellaneous large maps.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of Lands and Forests

Access Restrictions

Restricted. Material is fragile. Use under supervision of an archivist.

Title

Field notes of surveys for state roads

Series Number

B1885

Summary

This series consists of ten field books documenting surveys for proposed state roads. Two of the field books contain data on a state road from Lake Erie to the Hudson River that was proposed and surveyed, but never built. It is unknown whether the other field books refer to any roads that were actually built. The notes very occasionally include brief descriptions of soil conditions, terrain, and establishments on route.

Creator

• New York (State). Surveyor General

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Files relating to acquisition of the Bear Mountain Bridge

Series Number

A3162

Summary

Correspondence, memoranda, working papers, and supporting documents relating to the purchase of the Bear Mountain Bridge by the Bridge Authority. The legislature authorized the Authority to purchase the bridge from the Bear Mountain Hudson River Bridge Company in 1840.

Creator

• New York State Bridge Authority

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Greene Correctional Facility inmate case files

Series Number

W0026

Summary

Greene Correctional Facility, located in Greene County, N.Y., is a medium security correctional facility for male felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated men.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
• Greene Correctional Facility

Access Restrictions

Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.

Title

Town of Lexington records

Series Number

A4729

Summary

This series consists of town board minutes (1813-1999), school district records (1847-1849), annual town budgets (1943-1999), and tax rolls (1982-1998).

Creator

• Lexington (N.Y. : Town)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Lands under water survey project index cards

Series Number

B2645

Summary

This series of 5 x 8 inch cards indexes Series B2643, Lands under water survey project records. The index cards provide the name of applicant, survey location, county, tube number, and 222 series number. Some index cards also include project date. The cards also provide an "H" series number, which is the designation for highway/Department of Public Works projects. The last set of numbers in the "H" series number correlate to the project survey file number in Series B2643.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Otsego Northern Catskill Board of Cooperative Educational Services records

Series Number

A4645

Summary

Microfilmed records include Board of Education meeting minutes for Charlotte Valley Central School District and records of predecessor districts; Cooperstown Central School District and Cooperstown Union Free School District; Gilboa-Conesville Central School District; Morris Central School District and Morris Union Free School District; Andrew S. Draper Central School District; Hobart Union Free School District and records of several common school districts in the Town of Stamford; Stamford Central School District and records of predecessor districts; and Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School District. Also microfilmed are minutes of Otsego-Delaware-Schoharie-Greene Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES); and record books of Middletown Common School District no. 14.

Creator

• Otsego Northern Catskill Board of Cooperative Educational Services (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Lands under water survey project records

Series Number

B2643

Summary

This series consists of lands under water survey project records, which resulted from surveys conducted on behalf of applicants for lands under water transactions. The records also include some documentation of transfer of jurisdiction to other state agencies. Documented projects were located in the five boroughs of New York City and Long Island as well as Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Orange, and Greene counties. Typed of records include survey receipts, payroll logs, survey descriptions, phone message slips, survey calculations, copies of adjacent upland deeds, newspaper articles, and survey maps.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

New Baltimore records

Series Number

A4516

Summary

Microfilmed records include town clerk's record and minute books; highway account books; tax assessment rolls; town audits; poll books/registers of voters; town budgets; planning board minutes and planning review case files; mobile home permits; building permits; justice criminal case dockets; registers of chattel mortgages and conditional sales; and other records.

Creator

• New Baltimore (N.Y. : Town)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School District tax assessment rolls

Series Number

A4570

Creator

• Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School District (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Maps, charts, and illustrations prepared by Historical Records Survey staff

Series Number

A4192

Summary

This series consists of printed half tones charts and maps, and negative photostats of maps prepared by the Historical Records Survey for publications. Included are half-tones of colonial and revolutionary era buildings; organization charts of the colonial and state court system and county government; Revolutionary era county boundaries maps; floor plans of the Onondaga County Court House; and maps showing town, village, and city boundaries in Allegany, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Lewis, Monroe, Montgomery, Oneida, and St. Lawrence counties.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Orthographic aerial photographs

Series Number

20978

Summary

The Department of Transportation and Tri-State Regional Planning Commission aerial photographs primarily depict parts of New York State adjacent to Connecticut and New Jersey. Some additional images include counties, as follows: Broome, Columbia, Dutchess, Erie, Fulton, Greene, Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Nassau, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Oswego, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Steuben, Suffolk, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Wayne, and Westchester. Some photographs depict parcel measurements, batch maps, and original town coding maps for Western New York.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Map Information Unit

Access Restrictions

20978-11C: Restricted in part due to sensitive imagery.

Title

Tax assessors' atlases

Series Number

B0961

Summary

This series contains tax assessors atlases of counties, boroughs, cities, and towns. The bulk of the records are assessors atlases of counties and towns in Kings and Richmond counties. They were apparently prepared to determine land ownership for the purpose of tax assessment. Also included are 38 published atlases of counties, boroughs, cities, and towns, most of which were annotated with lot numbers and names of owners, for the purpose of tax assessment.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

New York State Treasurer's Office accounts and tax assessment lists

Series Number

A3210

Summary

This series consists of accounts of revenues and expenditures recorded by the Treasurer of New York Colony, 1721-1729, and tax assessment lists submitted by Superintendents of Taxes to the Treasurer of New York State, 1779-1788. The records document the first, second, and third wards of the City of Albany as well as the following counties: Albany, Dutchess, Montgomery, Orange, Queens, Richmond, Ulster, and Westchester.

Creator

• New York (State). Treasurer's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves land purchase journal

Series Number

B1889

Summary

This series consists of one volume which documents purchases of privately owned land by New York State for inclusion in the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves. Information for each purchase includes date of deed, certificate number, grantor, description and location of land, acres, consideration (amount paid), and date of payment.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Land Tax Bureau

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.