Land grants
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Adah Roberts land patent
Land patent issued by the United States General Land Office granting 160 acres to Adah Roberts, the sister and heir of Oliver Roberts, a private of the 25th Infantry Regiment in the War of 1812; a statement signed by J. M. Edmunds, Commissioner, certifying the copy of the Illinois Military Bound Land Patents.
Andrew Hood land patent
Land patent in Seneca County, New York.
Cockburn family papers
Correspondence, accounts, agreements, wills, maps, and other papers. The earlier papers (1703-1809) largely concern colonial land grants in which William Cockburn, surveyor, acquired an interest. The later papers consist of personal accounts of William Cockburn Jr. and James Cockburn. Includes contemporary copies of surveys and patents, accounts of land sales and material on surveys, sales, boundary disputes and land in Ulster County.
George Hyde Clarke family papers
Business, land and family papers of eight generations of the George Hyde Clarke family.
Hugh White papers
Indian land lottery miscellany
Correspondence, photographs, clippings, brochures, broadsides, and legal papers pertaining to the land lotteries of Rosebud County, South Dakota (1908), Lawton, Oklahoma (1908), and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (1909). Includes an application signed by John D. Rockefeller.
Samuel Jones papers
Opinion of Jones on the division of land between the heirs of Lawrens Van Alen, relating to the patent of John Hendrix De Bruyne on a tract of land at Kinderhook, Albany County, New York, commonly called De Bruyn's Right; covers history of patent from 1606-1786; also material having to do with elections.
United States General Land Office land grants to New York State
Approximately 400 items including land grants giving plots of federal land in Wisconsin to New York State under the provisions of the Morrill Land Grant College Act, with Ezra Cornell acting as the state's assignee. The grants are signed by President Andrew Johnson among others.