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Title

State Library photographs of the Flushing Remonstrance

Series Number

B1872

Summary

This series consists of photographic images of the Flushing Remonstrance taken before and after the New York State Capitol fire of 1911. Material includes 3 glass negatives of the Flushing Remonstrance taken before the fire; prints made from those negatives; and photographic prints of the Remonstrance, after it was repaired following the fire, but prior to its display in the New York State Freedom Train Exhibits (1950).

Creator

• New York State Library

Access Restrictions

Access to glass negatives is restricted due to fragility.

Title

New York State Education Department Division of Archives and History transcripts of Council minutes

Series Number

A4406

Summary

This series consists of typewritten transcripts of New York Colonial Council minutes created as part of an abandoned effort to publish Council minutes from the period after 1673. The transcripts contain extensive edits and annotations in pencil, as well as references to the volume and pages of either the original Council papers (most often) or the original Council minutes (infrequently) to which each page of text corresponds.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Field Books

Series Number

A0452

Summary

These volumes include surveys of land in the State's New Military Tract granted to veterans for service during the Revolution. They generally provide date of the survey; surveyors' names; name of patent and/or a narrative description of the land surveyed; narrative description; acreage of each lot; and occasional maps and valuations of lots.

Creator

• New York (State). Secretary of State

Access Restrictions

Microfilm is not available for duplication or inter-library loan.

Title

Military patents

Series Number

A0447

Summary

This series consists of records of land grants by letters patent for military service. Grants were made to individuals holding land bounty rights originally issued to commissioned officers and private soldiers who served in New York Continental regiments during the Revolutionary War. Series also includes records of land grants to demobilize British officers and private soldiers who had served in America during the Seven Years' War.

Creator

• New York (State). Secretary of State

Title

Record of deeds, mortgages, Regents charters, and other documents

Series Number

A0453

Summary

THis series contains copies of conveyances (deeds and mortgages), and many other types of private and public documents recorded by the Secretary of the colony of New York, 1664-1783, and by the Secretary of State, 1783-1890. Series also includes applications for and copies of academy charters granted by the Board of Regents, 1788-1855, and notices of discovery of gold and silver mines, 1789-1839.

Creator

• New York (State). Secretary of State

Access Restrictions

Microfilm is not available for duplication or interlibrary loan.

Title

Letters patent

Series Number

12943

Summary

Letters patent (commonly called a "patent") convey a grant of real property from a government to a person or persons. This series contains patents granted since 1664 by either the governor of the province of New York in the name of the king of England or the state of New York. Patents are arranged in chronological order by book and page number. They are indexed by name of grantee and by location.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of State. Bureau of Miscellaneous Records

Access Restrictions

Microfilm produced by the Genealogical Society of Utah is not available for duplication or inter-library loan.

Title

Dutch Delaware River settlement administrative records

Series Number

A1878

Summary

This series contains letters, minutes, and other administrative documents, in Dutch, created by the West India Company during its struggle to dominate trade and establish trading posts on the South (Delaware) River. The records, generated in the Delaware region and sent to New Amsterdam, largely relate to Swedish activities in the region; the takeover of New Sweden in 1655 by the Dutch; and agreements and terms met during the struggle with Sweden for control over the region.

Creator

• New Netherland. Council

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York State Education Department Division of Archives and History transcriptions of New York Council minutes and Council papers

Series Number

A3271

Summary

This series consists of transcriptions of New York Council Minutes and New York Council Papers (also known as "Colonial Manuscripts"). Transcriptions of Council minutes (Series A1895) span the period 1712-1767; transcriptions of Council papers (Series A1894) span the period 1683-1755.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Warrants of survey, powers of attorney, Indian deeds, and other records

Series Number

A1885

Summary

This series contains mostly warrants of survey but includes also a few unrelated legal documents. Colonial governors ordered surveys of all lands for which settlers applied for purchase. The warrants are the governor's orders to the surveyor general to carry out the survey. They provide name of governor; name of surveyor general; for whom land is to be surveyed; acreage and location of land; and date of warrant. The records suffered some burn damage in the 1911 State Capitol fire.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Governor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Dutch colonial administrative records

Series Number

A1881

Summary

This series contains patents issued under the administration of Dutch Governor Anthony Colve, and a few private deeds from the same period. In one notable document, Governor Colve granted the Lutheran congregation in Albany free exercise of their religion (September 26, 1673).

Creator

• New Netherland. Council

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York Colony Council minutes

Series Number

A1895

Summary

This series consists of bound volumes of minutes of the legislative and executive sessions of the Council of the Colony of New York. The council shared executive and legislative powers with the governor. Minutes include laws, orders, and resolutions concerning the court system, land titles, land development, commerce, relations with Indians, and taxation.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Council

Access Restrictions

Restricted due to burn damage.Microfilm is first-use copy.

Title

Transcripts of Council minutes and Assembly journals transmitted to the Board of Trade

Series Number

A1455

Summary

This series consists of photostat and microfilm reproductions of transcripts of New York Council minutes (executive and legislative sessions) and Assembly proceedings from 1686-1775. The transcripts were evidently prepared by the Secretary of the Province of New York or his deputy, and were transmitted to the Board of Trade in London.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Council

Access Restrictions

A1455-08: The microfilm contains the following statement: "Crown Copyright. Copies are supplied for information and research only. No reproduction may be made for publication without the assent of the Public Record Office."

Title

Manuscript/typescript of "Early records of the city and county of Albany and colony of Rensselaerswyck"

Series Number

A0126

Summary

This series consists of the edited manuscript/typescript of Dutch colonial records published by the New York State Library as volumes 2-4 of the early Records of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Rensselaerswyck (History Bulletins 9-11). These volumes were edited by A. J. F. Van Laer, Archivist with the State Library and later Division of Archives and History, from translations prepared by Jonathan Pearson nearly fifty years previously.

Creator

• New York State Library

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Unpublished lists and monographs submitted to the state historian

Series Number

A4195

Summary

This series contains drafts or typescripts by or for the state historian apparently considered for publication. Included is a preface and four articles intended as an introduction to published papers of military officer and Indian negotiator Sir William Johnson. The unused articles are by James Austen Holden, Robert W. Chambers, Wolcott W. Ellsworth, and Richard E. Day. Also included are two versions of a George Clinton biography, and lists of records in the British Public Record Office and British Museum.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New Netherland Council Curacao records

Series Number

A1883

Summary

The Cura?ao records, in Dutch, document the West India Company's activities in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century; supply information about the administration of affairs on Cura?ao; and depict the commercial relationship between the islands and New Netherland. The series includes administrative records and correspondence, and business records relating to trade and shipping. The records were maintained by Petrus Stuyvesant, who served as director of Cura?ao and dependencies during the years 1642-1644, 1646-1664.

Creator

• New Netherland. Council

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Minutes of Court of Commissioners appointed to examine the controversy between Connecticut and the Mohegan Indians

Series Number

A1889

Summary

The king appointed members of the councils of New York and New Jersey to investigate and settle a land dispute between Connecticut and the Mohegan Indians. The commission's minutes include: summaries of each party's arguments and the history of the dispute; copies of land sales by Indians to settlers, acts of the Connecticut General Assembly, testimony from previous inquiries; summary lists of documents produced as evidence; depositions and testimony by witnesses; and opinions of commissioners regarding outcome of the dispute.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Secretary

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Laws passed by the first Assembly

Series Number

A3078

Summary

These are commonly known as "Dongan's Laws." The first chapter of the laws is the "Charter of Liberties and Privileges" which was passed by the assembly (first New York legislature) on October 17, 1683. Through these laws the English Colonial Governor, Colonel Thomas Dongan, a Catholic, extended freedom of religion and other important rights to the colony. This provision was included in substance in Section 38 of the Constitution of 1777.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Secretary

Access Restrictions

This volume must be used under supervision of an archivist.

Title

Marriage bonds executed by persons obtaining marriage licenses

Series Number

A1893

Summary

Each marriage bond provides name(s) of person(s) to whom the bond was issued; names and residence of persons to whom the marriage license was issued; date (both in monarch's years of reign and conventional); and name (signature) of witness to execution of the bond. These records only document the intention of individuals to be married and do not prove that marriages actually took place.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Secretary

Access Restrictions

Original records are closed to use because of extensive burn damage sustained in the New York State Capitol building fire of 1911. Microfilm is available for use at the New York State Archives or through inter-library loan.

Title

New Netherland Council Dutch colonial ordinances

Series Number

A1875

Summary

This series consists of ordinances, laws, and regulations enacted by the Council of the Colony of New York to govern and maintain order in the communities of New Netherland. The records, written in the Dutch language, address personal behavior; community standards in such areas as fire prevention, construction, and real estate; and commercial matters like customs, sales, licensing, fees and taxes on goods and services, tobacco, liquor, livestock, currency, ships and shipping, farming, and trapping.

Creator

• New Netherland. Council

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York Colony Council British Delaware River settlement administrative records

Series Number

A1879

Summary

This series contains legal and administrative records, in English and Dutch, documenting the period of English control over the Delaware region by colonial governors Richard Nicholls, Francis Lovelace, and Edmund Andros. The records include correspondence, reports, petitions, accounts, survey-returns, copies of local court proceedings sent to Fort James, letters, orders, warrants, instructions, and patents.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Council.

Access Restrictions

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