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From: "James Brady" <>
Subject: RE: [HudsonRV] Ulster Co. Land records
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 11:08:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: <e4eff3a6b4240c4337cba0fd856a9a59@frontiernet.net>


Either I don't understand what you're looking for, or you don't understand
New York land records. Maybe you'll explain further, in the meantime so that
others aren't confused...

Land records are maintained at the county level in NY and most other states.
The colonial government was located in New Amsterdam under the Dutch and New
York City under the British. Not Albany.

While the colonial government might award a land patent, and that award
would still be in the records at a state level now, having been transferred
to the state government at Albany, it would eventually also be recorded at
the county level. Some originals of those patents, or land grants, might
have been held as historic documents at the State Library and destroyed in
the 1911 fire, but they would have been copied into county records. If not,
an owner would have been unable to transfer title to the property.

What am I missing?

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Malloy [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:02 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [HudsonRV] Ulster Co. Land records


Not Albany county. the Colonial Government in Albany


>
> Margaret wrote:
>> Any land records that were recorded in Albany would have been
>> destroyed
>> by fire in the early 1900s BUT there is a book called 'A Calendar of
>> Early New York Land Records' (or something very like that) that has
>> abstracts of the lost records.
> -----
> That sounds way wrong to me. Albany County published Indexes to
> Grantors,
> Grantees, Mortgagors, Maps and Lis Pendens for the years 1630-1894 in
> the
> early 1900's. Since the underlying deeds, etc., were county records
> they
> would not have been involved in the State Library fire you allude to.
>
> Jim
>

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