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 ==== The Holland Land Purchase ====
-This purchase included present Niagara, Erie, Chautauqua, and Cattaraugus counties and the western parts of Allegany, Wyoming, Genesee, and Orleans counties.
+The Holland Land purchase included present Niagara, Erie, Chautauqua, and Cattaraugus counties and the western parts of Allegany, Wyoming, Genesee, and Orleans counties. The Holland Land Company surveyed the land and then sold it to individuals from 1800 to 1835. <br>
+<br>
+'''Holland Land Company Records'''<br>
+The collection is at the [[Stadsarchief Amsterdam|Municipal Archives of Amsterdam]] and on microfilm at the [[New York State Library]], the [[SUNY Fredonia Reed Library|Daniel E. Reed Library at the State University of New York at Fredonia]], and the [[Library of Congress]]. This set of films is also available at the FamilySearch Library as the Holland Land Company Records, also known, as The Van Eeghen collection.
+*{{FSC|20454|item|disp=Holland Land Company Records; The Van Eeghen collection}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images; 202 microfilms<br>
+<br>
+'''Inventory of Holland Land Company Records'''<br>
+*''Inventory of the Archives of the Holland Land Company. 1789–1869'' By Wilhelmina C. Pieterse. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Municipal Printing Office of Amsterdam, 1976. {{FSC|266830|item|disp=FS Library book 974 R2p; film 1421412 item 2}}; {{WorldCat|046390|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}} - The inventory identifies 932 items, cross referencing them to 202 reels of microfilm.<br>
+<br>
+'''Partial Index to Holland Land Company Records'''<br>
+*''Western New York Land Transactions, 1804–1835: Extracted from the Archives of the Holland Land Company.'' By Karen E. Livsey. Two Volumes. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1991, 1996. , {{FSC|382438|item|FS Library book 974.7 R28L}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Western+New+York+Land+Transactions%2C+1804%E2%80%931835%3A+Extracted+from+the+Archives+of+the+Holland+Land+Company+karen+livsey At various libraries (WorldCat)]
+:This record indexes annual land tables (company accounts) covering 1804–1835 and is useful for finding someone in a particular place at a particular time. The settler’s name is indexed to an inventory reference number and page number within that reference. The table below cross references the year of the land table to the archive inventory reference number to the FamilySearch film and DGS numbers and should be used to locate the proper FamilySearch film containing the indexed settler’s name.<br>
+{| class="wikitable"
+! Archive <br>Ref No.
+! Year
+! Archive <br>Reel No.
+! FamilySearch <br>Film No.
+! FamilySearch <br>DGS No.
+|-
+| Inventory || - || 1 || 1421412 || 8346265
+|-
+| 484–487 || 1804–1809 || 109 || 1414983 || 7858059
+|-
+| 488–497 || 1810–1819 || 110 || 1414984 || 7769136
+|-
+| 498–506 || 1820–1828 || 111 || 1414985 || 7858058
+|-
+| 507–511 || 1829–1833 || 112 || 1414986 || 7858057
+|-
+| 512–513 || 1834–1835 || 113 || 1414987 || 7858056
+|}
-The Holland Land Company surveyed the land and then sold it to individuals from 1801 to 1840. The records are described in Wilhelmina C. Pieterse's ''Inventory of the Archives of the Holland Land Company. 1789–1869'' (Amsterdam, Netherlands: Municipal Printing Office of Amsterdam, 1976; FS Library book 974 R2p; film 1421412 item 2, {{FSC|266830|item}}.
+<br>
+'''Histories of the Holland Land Purchase'''<br>
-A partial index to the collection is Karen E. Livsey, ''Western New York Land Transactions, 1804–1835: Extracted from the Archives of the Holland Land Company'', Two Volumes. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1991, 1996; FS Library book 974.7 R28L, {{FSC|382438|item}}. This record indexes land tables (company accounts) and is useful for finding someone in a particular place at a particular time.
+*''The Developer's Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape.'' By William Wyckoff. New Haven, Connecticut and London, England: Yale University Press, 1988. {{FSC|675325|item|disp=FS Library book 974.7 E3w}}; {{WorldCat|16582045|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}
+*''The Holland Land Company.'' By Paul Demund Evans. Buffalo, New York, Buffalo Historical Society, 1924. {{FSC|TITLENUMBER|item|disp=FS Library book 974.796 B4b v. 28 & microfilm 872579 Item 3}}; {{WorldCat|4396087|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}
-The collection is at the [[Stadsarchief Amsterdam|Municipal Archives of Amsterdam]] and on microfilm at the [[New York State Library]], the [[SUNY Fredonia Reed Library|Daniel E. Reed Library at the State University of New York at Fredonia]], the [[Library of Congress]], and the [[New York Public Library]].
+*''Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York: Embracing some Account of the Ancient Remains, and a History of Pioneer Settlement Under the Auspices of the Holland Company; Including Reminiscences of the War of 1812; the Origin, Progress and Completion of the Erie Canal, etc., etc., etc.'' By Orsamus Turner. Buffalo, New York: Jewett, Thomas & Co., 1850. {{FSC|550520|item|disp=FS Library book 974.79 H2t 1991 v. 1}} & {{FSC|550520|item|disp=microfilm 871562 Item 1}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Pioneer+History+of+the+Holland+Purchase+of+Western+New+York+by+Turner At various libraries (WorldCat)] '''''Online at:''''' [http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/482352 FamilySearch Digital Library]; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000249153 HathiTrust]
-The largest single set of Holland Land Company records at the FamilySearch Library is the Van Eeghen collection, Holland Land Company Records (FamilySearch Library 202 microfilms).
-A history of the Holland purchase is Wyckoff, William, ''The Developer's Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape''(New Haven, Connecticut and London, England: Yale University Press, 1988; FS Library book 974.7 E3w, {{FSC|675325|item}}.
 ==== The Phelps and Gorham Purchase ====