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Real property -- New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Davenport family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1903
Abstract

The collection pertains chiefly to investments in lands in New York State, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nebraska, to interests in mining, railway, mercantile, banking, and other business ventures, and to the settlement of family estates.

Dates: 1800-1941.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Davenport family papers

Dole vs. Fellows legal documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 31 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246336]
Identifier: 1111m
Scope and content

Printed documents laying out the various sides of the case as it came before the New York State Supreme Court and the state Court of Appeals. Included are the points made by the attorneys for the defendant and the plaintiff, and opinions of two judges.

Dates: 1850-1854.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Dole vs. Fellows legal documents

Frederick Morrison Babcock publications

 Collection
Identifier: 4087
Abstract

Publications, including land valuations, estimates, reports and development studies by Frederick Morrison Babcock. Areas represented in these studies are located in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1941-1973.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Frederick Morrison Babcock publications

Green vs. Winter documents

 Collection
Identifier: 1942
Abstract

A court-ordered report on the monies received from May 1807-January 1811 by Joseph Winter, presented to the New York State Court of Chancery in New York City.

Dates: 1810-1811.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Green vs. Winter documents

Horatio Seymour papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 694
Abstract

Papers are concerned chiefly with land holdings and business dealings of the Seymour family, and the related Bleecker family and Tibbits family; the development of business in the city of Utica, milling, banking, and iron manufacturing. Other topics include the Saint Mary's Ship Canal and connecting Lake Superior with the lower Great Lakes.

Dates: 1741-1920.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Horatio Seymour papers

Hulce family papers

 Collection — Box 690 2: [Barcode: 31924113867380]
Identifier: 690
Abstract Correspondence, records, contracts, accounts, inventories, surveys, deeds, expository accounts, plans, and other records and material pertaining to the activities of the Hulce family in Deposit, Delaware County, New York. Subjects include their lumbering interests along the Delaware River, the making of potash, a general store business, land speculation and real estate in New York, Pennsylvania, and the west, saw-mills, labor matters, waterpower, and brick-kilning. Areas of their especial...
Dates: 1773-1899.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hulce family papers

John Lowther Johnstone land accounts

 Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 31924065435087]
Identifier: 1067
Scope and content

Records of land sales on the Pulteney Estate, New York State; entries indicate that contracts were made on the terms of two dollars per acre. Among the names appearing are Robert Troup, Dugald Cameron, Moses Lyon, Reverend John Niles, and Moses Van Campen.

Dates: 1808-1816.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / John Lowther Johnstone land accounts

Josiah Emery autobiography

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938172]
Identifier: 731
Scope and content Describes his early religious experiences and his Arminian leanings; his days at Dartmouth College; his study of medicine and his involvement in a grave robbery of a cadaver and the subsequent trial; his student days at Union College; his activities as a lawyer, district attorney, newspaper publisher, and politician in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; his interest in the Corning and Blossburg Railroad, and land speculation. In 1837, Horace Greeley approached Emery with the offer of a literary...
Dates: 1801-1891.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Josiah Emery autobiography

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

 Collection — Manuscript box 52 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251849]
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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Land concentration and transferral in the military tract of New York State

Letters from New York State public figures

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239711]
Identifier: 285m
Scope and content Routine letters: from John C. Spencer to Weare C. Little, written in Albany (New York), April 17, 1845, asking Little to ask the publisher to supply some pages missing from Spencer's copy of Peters' Digest of Cases in the Courts of the United States; from Amos Hall to Nathaniel Gorham in Canandaigua, June 30, 1793, about looking over a piece of land owned by Captain Taft; from Daniel S. Dickinson to W. B. Donlon (?), Albany, March 24, 1862, complying with Donlon's request for an autograph;...
Dates: 1793-1862.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters from New York State public figures

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