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Displaying 17 Finding Aids
Title
- Abstracts of land grants
Series Number
- A3199
Summary
- This series consists of abstracts of land grants held by the Treasurer's Office. Information includes Governor's name and date, patentees, rents reserved and other services, book and folio, denomination and description of the land, and observations. Land grants for the following counties are listed: Albany, Charlotte, Cumberland, Gloucester, Kings, New York, Orange, Dutchess, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Tryon, Ulster, and Westchester.
Creator
- New York (Colony). Treasurer's Office
Access Restrictions
- Restricted: documents with severe burn damage are closed to use.
Title
- Accounts of land grants
Series Number
- A3209
Summary
- This series consists of accounts of land grants in the counties of Cumberland, Tryon, Charlotte, Albany, and Gloucester. Records are burned around the edges. Records must be se under supervision of an archivist.
Creator
- New York (Colony). Treasurer's Office
Access Restrictions
- Records are fragile due to burn damage. Use with the supervision of an archivist.
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
- Letters patent issued to William Basset
Series Number
- B1507
Summary
- This series consists of letters patent to William Basset for lot 95 in the Township of Homer, Montgomery County. One hundred acres in the southeast corner is reserved to the state, and five of every one hundred acres is to be reserved for highways. The patent was issued with the condition that the settlement is made on the tract within seven years.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of State
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Geographical indexes to patents
Series Number
- A3121
Summary
- This series contains geographical indexes to lands conveyed by the State of New York by letters patent. Information includes: lot number; acreage; name of patentee; date of patent; and volume and page number reference to the patent in series 12943, Letters Patent.
Creator
- New York (State). Board of Appraisers
Access Restrictions
- A3121-15: Microfilm is not available for duplication or interlibrary loan.
Title
- List of land patents granted by the state
Series Number
- A4007
Summary
- This series serves as a record of original grants of state land to private owners, listing persons who received patents for New York State lands. Settlers seeking land grants applied to the governor, who ordered the surveyor general to survey the requested land before approving the grant. Information includes patentee name; number of acres granted; date patent was filed; and location of land, either by lot number or by a description of its geographic location.
Creator
- New York (State). Surveyor General
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Register of land grant applications, petitions, and correspondence
Series Number
- A3249
Summary
- The Commissioners of the Land Office were responsible for the approval, rejection, or direction of other actions concerning land grant applications and related land matters. This series consists of a register of actions taken on land grant applications and related land matters. Information includes applicants name, petitioner or correspondent and land applied for or subject of petition or correspondence. Most correspondence apparently concerns actual grant applications, land surveys, or the payment of taxes or rents on land.
Creator
- New York (State). Commissioners of the Land Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Index and abstracts of military patents
Series Number
- A3123
Summary
- This volume contains abstracts of patents for bounty lands granted to Revolutionary War veterans, copies of which are in series A0447, Military Patents. Information includes: date of letters patent; name of patentee; name of township; lot number; acreage and county and town where lot was located ca. 1820. There is an alphabetical name index to patentees and alphabetical index to towns listing all military patents in each town.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of State
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Secretary of State's letter books
Series Number
- A0325
Summary
- The letter books consist of handwritten and typewritten copies of outgoing correspondence sent by the New York Secretary of State. The letters deal with various subjects, including the publication and dissemination of state laws; applications for land grants; resolutions of the Commissioners of the Land Office; state censuses of 1835 and 1905; and elections. Many of the letters are partially faded, and are therefore difficult to read.
Creator
- New York (State). Secretary of State
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Original drafts of letters patent
Series Number
- A0179
Summary
- This series consists of severely burned fragments of original drafts of letters patent issued by the governor of the province of New York in the name of the king of England. Prior to the New York State Capitol fire of 1911, the series most likely included six volumes of original drafts, arranged in chronological order, including indexes.
Creator
- New York (Colony). Secretary
Access Restrictions
- Series is closed to research due to severe burn damage. Researchers should consult Series 12943, Letters Patent, 1664-2010.
Title
- Lands under water application files
Series Number
- B2321
Summary
- This series consists of applications for grants to lands under water. Each file typically consists of an application and accompanying map. Information on the application includes applicant name; date; attorney's name; notes related to the final determination of application; date patent was ordered to be issued; patent date; and signature of the attorney.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of General Services. Bureau of Land Management
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- State Engineer and Surveyor land survey maps
Series Number
- 12405
Summary
- This series consists primarily of Lake George survey maps assessing water levels and gauge readings. Also included are three other maps pertaining to land boundaries and ownership that were also filed in the Office of the State Engineer and Surveyor: lots in Macomb's Purchase and Arthursborough Patent, as well as a road patent in Hoffman Township.
Creator
- New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Commissioners of the Land Office minutes
Series Number
- B1870
Summary
- The Commissioners of the Land Office were appointed to direct the disposition and granting of unappropriated state lands. This series consists of minutes documenting the approval, rejection, or direction of other actions concerning land grant applications and related land matters.
Creator
- New York (State). Commissioners of the Land Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Applications for land grants
Series Number
- A0272
Summary
- The series consists of applications for grants of unappropriated land by letters patent from New York Colony and State. Along with the applications are related reports, surveys, maps, warrants for surveying lands and drafting of letters patent, objections to title, and letters.
Creator
- New York (State). Secretary of State
Access Restrictions
- A0272-19: Map is fragile and should be handled under the supervision of an archivist.
Title
- New York State Department of State letters patent transcribed pursuant to an Act of 1786
Series Number
- A0487
Summary
- This series consists of the original engrossed (or final) letters patent and military patents, which were transcribed pursuant to Chapter 13 of the Laws of 1786. That law states that these volumes were "by various accidents so injured that a frequent Recourse to them may render them illegible." The transcriptions were inserted into the books of Letters Patent (Series 12943) and Military Patents (Series A0447). In addition to recorded patents, the first two volumes also contain records of confirmations of deeds dating prior to the English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, commissions and appointments of civil and military officers, naturalizations and denizations of non-British subjects, and a few Indian deeds.
Creator
- New York (State). Secretary of State
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Abstracts of letters patent
Series Number
- B1892
Summary
- This series consists of a partial set of volumes containing summary information about land patents awarded by New York Colony and New York State. The volumes abstract, in rough chronological order, patents awarded from 1664-1679 and 1695-1842; however, patents awarded to veterans of the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War as payments for military service are not included. Patents granting lands that New York ceded to Vermont, circa 1820, are scattered throughout the volumes.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of State
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Maps of grants of lands under water
Series Number
- 19116
Summary
- The series consists of maps depicting grants of land under water made by the state from 1777 through the 1900s. Each map depicts the names of individuals to whom grants were made.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of General Services. Division of Land Utilization
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.