New York Land and Property: Difference between revisions

*'''1762-1830''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5368 New York, Sales of Loyalist Land, 1762-1830 ] ($) index & images  

*'''1825-1835''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49408 Western New York Land Transactions, 1825-1835] ($)  

*[https://www.archive.org/stream/newyorkgenealog00unkngoog#page/n330/mode/1up Lords of Manors of New York, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record at Internet Archive]

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/full-text Full-Text Search - Land Records] at FamilySearch - index & images; dates, records, and places vary; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00oMDsAsSw How to Search]

*Gehring, Charles T., translator and editor. New York Historical Manuscripts. Dutch. ''Land Papers, Volumes GG, HH, and II, 1630-1664''. <ref>Gehring, Charles T., translator and editor. New York Historical Manuscripts. Dutch. ''Land Papers, Volumes GG, HH, and II, 1630-1664''. Published under the direction of The Holland Society of New York. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1980.</ref> This book is a translation of land patents, 1630–1651 and 1654–1664, the earliest land records of New Netherland. {{FSC|120798|item|disp=FS Catalog book 974.7 R2lp}}.

*O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey, comp. ''Calendar of New York Colonial Manuscripts, Indorsed Land Papers in the Office of the Secretary of State of New York, 1643–1803. 1864''. <ref>O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey, comp. ''Calendar of New York Colonial Manuscripts, Indorsed Land Papers in the Office of the Secretary of State of New York, 1643–1803''. 1864. Revised reprint, Harrison, New York: Harbor Hill Books, 1987</ref> {{FSC|557896|item|disp=FS Catalog book 974.7 R2n}}; older edition {{FSC|74620|item|disp=FS Library film 947853}}. This indexes the ''Land Grant Application Files, 1642–1803'', commonly referred to as the ''New York Colonial Manuscripts, Endorsed Land Papers'', in 63 volumes at the state archives (not at FamilySearch Library). The records pertain to New York and Vermont. They give name and date and place of residence. These records have been microfilmed by the New York State Archives, and the films are available for sale by the New York State Archives or through interlibrary loan.

*Van Laer, Arnold Johan Ferdinand, translator. ''New York Historical Manuscripts. Dutch. Register of the Provincial Secretary''.<ref>Van Laer, Arnold Johan Ferdinand, translator; Kenneth Scott and Kenn Stryker-Rodda, editors. ''New York Historical Manuscripts. Dutch. Register of the Provincial Secretary''. Four Volumes. Published under the Direction of The Holland Society of New York. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1974.</ref> Volumes 1-3 contain translations of conveyances recorded in the minutes of the provincial secretary, 1638–1660. Gives name, date, and location of the patent. {{FSC|196619|item|disp=FS Catalog book 974.7 H2vL v. 1–4}}.

*Ruth L. Higgins, editor, ''Expansion in New York with Especial Reference to the Eighteenth Century''.<ref>Ruth L. Higgins, editor, ''Expansion in New York with Especial Reference to the Eighteenth Century''. 1931; reprint edition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Porcupine Press, 1976.</ref> {{FSC|180475|item|disp=FS Catalog book 974.7 H2h 1976, film 1036688 item 2}}

Bowman, Fred Q. ''Landholders of Northeastern New York, 1739–1802'' (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1983). Indexes patents, 1739–1775, and deeds and mortgages, 1764–1802, for the present-day counties of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Warren, and Washington. {{FSC|343454|item|disp=FS Catalog book 974.7 R24b; film 1321009 item 8}}. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/landholders-of-northeastern-new-york-1739-1802/oclc/9616511&referer=brief_results Other libraries with this book].  

A source for more historical information about the manors is ''Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial Society, 1664–1775<ref>Kim, Sung Bok, ''Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial Society, 1664–1775'' (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1978</ref>'' The appendix, "A Note on Sources," describes the manorial records that exist and where they are located. ({{FSC|321503|item|disp=FS Catalog book 974.7 R2k}}).  

*Soldiers that drew land are listed in ''The Balloting Book, and Other Documents Relating to Military Bounty Lands in the State of New York''<ref>''The Balloting Book, and Other Documents Relating to Military Bounty Lands in the State of New York'' (Albany, New York: Packard  Van Benthuysen, 1825.</ref> The book is arranged by township, lot number, and grantee name. There are volume and page cross references to the military patent books. {{FSC|61263|item|disp=FS Library film 812864 item 4}}. Online PDF pages available at: [https://www.tcpl.org/node/5244 Tompkins County Public Library]<br>An index to this source is M. Frances Ferris, ''Index, the Balloting Book and Other Documents Relating to Military Bounty Lands in the State of New York.''<ref>Ferris, M. Frances. ''Index, the Balloting Book and Other Documents Relating to Military Bounty Lands in the State of New York'', (Syracuse, New York: Onondaga Historical Association, 1954)</ref>{{FSC|61274|item|disp=FS Library film 896803 item}}. Available online at: [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008555402 Hathitrust]

*The State Archives has ''Revolutionary War Accounts and Claims''. These records were abstracted in James A. Roberts, ''New York in the Revolution as Colony and State.<ref>Roberts, James A. ''New York in the Revolution as Colony and State'', Revised Edition. (Albany, New York: 1904).</ref>'' See Revolutionary War at [[New York Military Records|New York Military Records]]. About two-thirds of the original documents plus the entire name index were destroyed in the Capitol fire of 1911. The surviving records have been microfilmed and the films are available on interlibrary loan from the [https://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=ead/findingaids/A0200.xml New York State Archives]. '''Online at:''' Vol. I - [https://archive.org/details/cu31924030989366/page/n7/mode/2up Internet Archive], Vol. II - [https://archive.org/details/newyorkrevolution02statrich/page/n7/mode/2up Internet Archive]; Vols. I & II - [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/11663/ Ancestry] ($).  The first volume lists some 45,000 names from regimental rosters. The second volume has lists of bounty land recipients, refugees, naval lists, prisoner of war lists, lists of suspected Loyalists, claimants for damages, and information about confiscated estates.

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>

'''Histories of the Holland Land Purchase'''<br>

*''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 Catalog 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 Catalog book 974.796 B4b v. 28 & microfilm 872579 Item 3}}; {{WorldCat|4396087|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}

*''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 Catalog 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]

This purchase consisted of a sale of six million acres from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for $1,000,000 and included Ontario, Yates, and Steuben counties; the eastern portions of present Monroe and Livingston counties; the western parts of Wayne and Schuyler counties; and part of Allegany County. It was purchased by Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham. The papers of Oliver Phelps survive and were originally housed at the Canandaigua homestead. When the last surviving family member moved from Canandaigua, the papers were divided into three collections. The majority of the Phelps and Gorham Papers were deposited with the New York State Library, Albany. A smaller portion were donated to the Ontario County Historical Society, Canandaigua and a third collection was eventually deposted in the Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan. The latter collection contains the most genealogical material on the Phelps family.