Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, records of Queens County page 84. Patent for the town of Oyster Bay issued September 29, 1677 by Governor Edmund Andros (continued). View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, records of Queens County page 83. Patent for the town of Oyster Bay issued September 29, 1677 by Governor Edmund Andros (continued). View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, records of Queens County page 82. Patent for the town of Oyster Bay issued September 29, 1677 by Governor Edmund Andros (continued). View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, records of Queens County page 81. Patent for the town of Oyster Bay issued September 29, 1677 by Governor Edmund Andros to Henry Townsend Sr., Thomas Townsend, and five others; with a November 1, 1684 memorandum by Thomas Townsend, and six others authorized to determine the boundary between the towns of Oyster Bay and Hempstead, and a May 24, 1711 declaration by Thomas Townsend that his sons in law, Thomas Jones and Abraham Underhill, are his "equal associates," sharing his rights under the patent; recorded May 7, 1753 in the records of Queens County by Andrew Clark, clerk, and November 25, 1685 in the records of the Colony of View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, records of the town of Jamaica, recto of leaf 2. 1658-1659 grants of land in Jamaica, Long Island to John, Henry, and Richard Townsend and others and other notices of the Townsends; index of Wright family continued from previous page. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, records of the town of Jamaica, recto of leaf 1. 1656 grants of land in Jamaica, Long Island to John, Henry, and Richard Townsend and others. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of leaf 87. Notes documenting Thomas Townsend's appearances in the records of Oyster Bay, 1675-1678; includes a March 4, 1677/8 decree of the town of Oyster Bay granting land at Ash Swamp and exclusive right to operate a tavern and sell alcoholic beverages to whomever would keep a tavern there; the grant was accepted by Thomas Townsend and confirmed by the town constable and overseers; with a slip with notes affixed to leaf. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of leaf 71. September 16, 1661 grant from the town of Oyster Bay to Henry Townsend giving him property on the condition that he construct and operate a mill. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of leaf 65. Note from the Oyster Bay town records that Henry Townsend was granted a 10 acre lot March 1, 1661 [i.e. 1662?] View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of leaf 3. Note giving the first part of Dutch governor Willem Kieft's patent for Flushing with the names of the patentees including John Townsend. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Peter Stuyvesant land grant [English translation], January 18, 1662 Late 18th or early 19th century English translation of a Dutch land grant from Peter Stuyvesant, Director General of New Netherlands, to Rutger Joesten Van Brunt for land at New Utrecht; Cornelis Van Ruyven, secretary. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Peter Stuyvesant land grant, January 18, 1662. Late 18th or early 19th century copy of a land grant from Peter Stuyvesant, Director General of New Netherlands, to Rutger Joesten Van Brunt for land at New Utrecht; Cornelis Van Ruyven, secretary. View Item
Text Notes and observations on the town of East Hampton at the east end of Long Island by John Lyon Gardiner, April 1798, page [53] View Item
Text Notes and observations on the town of East Hampton at the east end of Long Island by John Lyon Gardiner, April 1798, page 52. Copy of the March 10, 1640 grant from James Farrett, agent of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, to Lion Gardiner granting Gardiner title to Gardiners Island which he had settled the previous year; witnessed by Fulke David and Benjamin Price. View Item
Image Text 8 Items Dutch patent, recorded for the Town of Hempstead, November 16, 1644. Copy of the grant by Willem Kieft, Director of the colony of New Netherland, to John Fordham and five other Englishmen for the Town of Hempstead; copy made ca. 1883 from the grant as recorded March 6, 1666; copy certified May 24, 1883, by Anson S. Wood, Deputy Secretary of State, New York. View Item
Image Collection 5 Items Duane family papers, 1665-1916 (bulk 1756-1900) This collection contains papers relating to the Duane family and associated families. The bulk of the collection concerns the papers of James Duane, a prominent New York lawyer, patriot, and land developer. James Duane (1733-1797) became the ward of Robert Livingston after his father's death around 1734 and married Livingston's daughter Mary in 1759. He made a number of profitable real estate investments and was a prominent lawyer by the time of the American Revolution. View Collection
Image Collection 15 Items Ebenezer Gray collection, 1777-1844 (bulk 1777-1786) Letters, certificates, land grants and military orders pertaining to the life of Ebenezer Gray of Connecticut. Items include Grays commissions as major (dated 1777, signed by John Hancock) and lieutenant-colonel in the Sixth Connecticut Regiment (1778, signed by John Jay); eight letters from various officers discussing military matters; Grays membership certificate in the Society of the Cincinnati, signed by George Washington; and a land grant to Grays three children, signed by Thomas Jefferson. View Collection
Image Collection 62 Items William Burnet papers, 1720-1742 (bulk 1720-1729) Three folders (62 items) of mostly official signed documents from Burnet's tenure as governor of New York and New Jersey, including land grants, warrants for letters patent, memorials, leases, receipts, bills, and lists of accounts. James Alexander is a frequent co-signer and correspondent, and the collection also includes several bonds from Alexander to Burnet for fairly large sums of money. A few later documents discuss the disposition of Burnet's estate. View Collection