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• Ancestry.com - U.S., Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases, 1507-2000 $

  Original source: Historic Map Works LLC, Portland, Maine. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 $

  Original source: Various publishers of County Land Ownership Atlases. Microfilmed by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - Western New York Land Transactions, 1825-1835 $

  Original source: Livsey, Karen E. Western New York Land Transactions, 1825-1835. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

• BLM - The Bureau of Land Management

  • Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records

    The Official Land Records Site for the United States. This site has a searchable database of more than five million (1820-present) Federal land conveyance records, including scanned images of those records. There are also images related to survey plats and field notes, dating back to 1810. The site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.

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      • Document Requests - Eastern States Patent Request

      • Document Requests - Land Entry Case File

        Explanation of steps involved to get copies of the National Archives and Records Administration Land Entry Case Files.

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      • Rectangular Survey System

    • Search Documents By Type, By Location, By Identifier

      There are 4 documents in the search: Patents, Survey Plats and Field Notes, Land Status Records, Control Document Index. Patents are for 49 states and DC. Survey Plates and Field Notes are for Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming. Land Status Records are for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota. Control Document Index is for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming.

• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - 1895 N.Y. land grants, patents, purchases

• Deed Data Pool

  Downloadable deed files for Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia & West Virginia.

• FamilySearch - New York, Land Records, 1630-1975 ^FREE

  Land and property records from the New York Land Office and county courthouses. The records include land grants, patents, deeds, and mortgages. This collection includes all counties except Franklin, Nassau, and Queens.

• FamilySearch - Patents of the state of New York, 1649-1912

• FamilySearch - United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975 ^FREE

  Land and property records from the New York Land Office and county courthouses. The records include land grants, patents, deeds, and mortgages. This collection includes all counties except Franklin, Nassau, and Queens. Researchers, please note that the Oneida County records will be found with the Herkimer County records.

• FamilySearch Wiki - New York Land and Property

• New York In The Revolution: The New York Militia, Land Bounty Rights | American Wars

  The New York Militia: Land Bounty Rights, extracted from the book "New York In The Revolution Revolution as Colony and State". A compilation of documents and records from The Office Of The State Comptroller.

• New York Indorsed Land Papers, 1643-1676

• New York Land Records

  From USLandRecords Real Property Official Records Search

• New York State Archives - Map of Scriba's Patent and Boylston Tract. Map #204

• NYG&B - New York Land Records Project

  Join this exciting initiative to index millions of land records from across the state of New York.

• Patroonships, manors and seigniories in New York recognized by the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors

  From the New York Public Library Digital Collections

• State University of New York at Fredonia - Reed Library - Holland Land Company Materials

• The Holland Land Company - Selected Resources