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Land grants

 Subject
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Adah Roberts land patent

 Collection — Manuscript box 33 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246773]
Identifier: 1238
Scope and content

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.

Dates: 1818, 1866.

Andrew Hood land patent

 Collection — Manuscript box 79 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065253845]
Identifier: 909
Scope and content

Land patent in Seneca County, New York.

Dates: 1811.

Cockburn family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065183893]
Identifier: 935
Scope and content

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.

Dates: 1703-1827.

George Hyde Clarke family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2800
Abstract

Business, land and family papers of eight generations of the George Hyde Clarke family.

Dates: 1705-1937.

Hugh White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 610
Abstract Correspondence, letters, diaries, account books, tax receipts, deeds, inventories, contracts, surveys, land records, maps, photographs, church records, genealogical data and other papers pertaining chiefly to White's involvement in land in northern New York, particularly the counties of Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, and St. Lawrence; material concerning the cement business at Chittenango and Greenkills, New York. Also, political papers (1840-1867), which include material on the...
Dates: 1750-1933.

Indian land lottery miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4591
Scope and content

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.

Dates: 1908-1909.

Samuel Jones papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239570]
Identifier: 247
Scope and content

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.

Dates: 1786-1799

United States General Land Office land grants to New York State

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065173316]
Identifier: 7-2-96
Scope and content

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.

Dates: 1867.