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Land concentration and transferral in the military tract of New York State

Collection — manuscript box: 52 - folder 1

Identifier: 2865m

Scope and content

Typewritten manuscript, including footnotes and bibliography, with a few corrections in pencil. Includes a chapter on the Town of Dryden. Inserted is a chart showing the original counties of New York State, with their dates of origin, and the other counties that have grown out of them.

Dates

between 1938
between 1970.

Creator

Bluestone, Donald. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

The Military Tract of Central New York, also called the New Military Tract, consisted of nearly two million acres of land set aside to compensate New York's soldiers after their participation in the Revolutionary War. The tract covered the present counties of Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, and Seneca, and parts of Oswego, Tompkins, Schuyler and Wayne.