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Displaying 15 Finding Aids
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
- 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
- Albany-Schenectady-Schoharie Board of Cooperative Educational Services District Superintendent of Schools records
Series Number
- A3370
Summary
- Microfilmed records include statistical, fiscal, legal, publicity, and other records relating to school districts in the constituent counties. Most of the documents relate to the district superintendent's function as representative and agent of the State Commissioner of Education. Records include annual financial and statistical reports; Communications Director's news files; District Superintendent's administrative office files; annual and statistical reports; component school district case files; certificates of apportionment of public school monies; teacher certificates; records of reorganization; and public employee contract negotiation files.
Creator
- Albany-Schenectady-Schoharie Board of Cooperative Educational Services (N.Y.) District Superintendent of Schools
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Worcester town and school district records
Series Number
- A4522
Summary
- Microfilmed records include town clerk's record and minute books; Worcester Union Free School District board of education minute books; record books of several common school districts in the town of Worcester; and minute books of the Delaware, Otsego and Scoharie Association of [School Supervisory] District Superintendents, an association of rural school administrators.
Creator
- Worcester (N.Y. : Town)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Accounts of town assessors and commissioners of taxes
Series Number
- A0976
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of accounts submitted by the assessors from eleven counties to Commissioners of Taxes. Information includes assessors name; number of days spent assessing lands, preparing lists of assessments, hearing appeals, equalizing the assessments, and preparing the final rolls. Also included are affidavits stating that the work was "actually and diligently" performed; transmittal letters; certifications of elected assessors and collectors of taxes, and abstracts of assessors' accounts.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Land Tax Bureau
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
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
- Abstracts of sales of lands for unpaid quit rents, road and marsh taxes, and U.S. Direct Tax
Series Number
- B1621
Summary
- The United States government levied a direct property tax in 1798, for which the state administered delinquent accounts. The tax-sale of 1808 was conducted for instances of nonpayment of the U.S. direct tax. This series consists of brief typewritten abstracts of information concerning unpaid quit rents, road and marsh taxes, and direct taxes.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
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
- Summit Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0051
Summary
- Summit Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility (1961-2011), located in Schoharie County, N.Y., was a minimum 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
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
- Schoharie County town and village records
Series Number
- A4533
Summary
- Microfilmed records include town clerk's and village clerk's record and minute books for several municipalities in Schoharie County.
Creator
- Schoharie (N.Y. : County)
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
- 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
- Sharon Springs Central School District board of education minute books and tax assessment rolls
Series Number
- A4489
Summary
- Microfilmed records include minute books of the Sharon Springs Central School board of education (1928-1991), record and minute books of predecessor districts, and tax assessment rolls for the district and its predecessors (1904-1990).
Creator
- Sharon Springs Central School District (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Cobleskill-Richmondville Central School District district reorganization and litigation records
Series Number
- A4742
Summary
- This series consists of microfilm copies of correspondence, memorandums, reports, tables, district maps, newspaper clippings, and other documents, mostly relating to the studies and the process of district reorganization.
Creator
- Cobleskill-Richmondville Central School District (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- A small quantity of documents in this series is exempt from disclosure, in whole or in part, under New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). Restricted materials include privileged attorney-client communications, attorney work product, material prepared for litigation, certain other inter- and intra-agency materials, and social security account numbers.
Title
- County fire protection district map files
Series Number
- A4218
Summary
- This series consists of 34 annotated county maps showing boundaries of fire districts and fire protection districts, as well as related correspondence. These maps were used by the commission to assist in the development and revision of laws relating to volunteer firemen and to fire prevention and protection in municipalities and the state. Records also include lists by county indicating fire districts for each town and their establishment date, as well as correspondence with county fire coordinators, requesting action on the boundary maps and providing instructions.
Creator
- New York (State). Temporary State Commission on Fire Laws
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.