New York (State). Surveyor General
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Through an 1819 law the legislature appointed Governor DeWitt Clinton, Surveyor General Simeon DeWitt, Secretary of State John V.N. Yates, Senator Martin Van Buren, Edmund C. Genet, George Tibbits, and Townsend McCoun as commissioners to study and report to the legislature on navigation of the Hudson River.
An 1825 law required these maps and profiles be produced for a report to the legislature suggesting the best route for such a road. The route, apparently extending from Kingston to Dunkirk along the state's Southern Tier, was never built, although various state roads later connected some of the points along the proposed route.
The Secretary and other state officials delivered these abstracts and other records concerning the sale and settlement of state lands to the Surveyor General. The Secretary or a deputy appointed by him was also ex fficio secretary of the Commissioners of the Land Office which was created in 1786 and included the Surveyor General as a member.
Simeon De Witt served as surveyor general of New York State from 1784 until his death in 1834.
The records were purchased by the state from the widow of David E. E. Mix, who had published lists of Holland Land Company records in Catalogue of Maps and Surveys in the Offices of the Secretary of State, State Engineer and Surveyor, and Comptroller, and the New York State Library (Albany, 1859). The state purchased these and other Holland Land Company records in order to have original records concerning state lands.
The Holland Land Company was an association of Dutch banks and other investors speculating in American land in the late 1700s. The company purchased over five million acres in central and western New York and Pennsylvania. The land was divided into ranges numbered I to XV east to west. Ranges were subdivided into townships of six square miles which were then further divided into lots of 360 acres. The lots could be broken into three sections of 120 acres each. Between 1798 and 1800, surveyors ran the lines of the ranges and townships. Following this, work began on internal surveys of the townships. When this was completed in 1819, the company increased its efforts to sell the land. The company sold its last tract of land (in Pennsylvania) in 1849 and was subsequently liquidated. In 1895 the state purchased Holland Land Company records from the widow of David E. E. Mix, whom the state had employed as a surveyor on several occasions.
Early relations between New York and Vermont were inextricably linked to the land, and marked by a struggle to establish boundaries and defend property rights. The period covered by the bulk of these records correlates with the formative years of Vermont statehood.
New York Governor George Clinton initially refused to recognize the state of Vermont, although in 1778 he offered to confirm land titles to all inhabitants who would admit the jurisdiction of New York. In 1790 commissioners from the two states agreed that New York would recognize Vermont independence and boundaries in return for Vermont paying New York for land claims. Vermont entered the union in 1791.
Migration was a continuing factor in relations between the two states. The landed aristocracy, through close association with the merchant class, acquired large tracts of land in western and northern New York. Large numbers of people migrated to New York's north country from the Green Mountains across Lake Champlain to settle. It has been estimated that in 1850 one-fifth of the population of Vermont had become citizens of New York.
The Holland Land Company was an association of Dutch banks and other investors speculating in American land during the late 1700s.
The company purchased over five million acres in central and western New York and Pennsylvania. The land was divided into ranges numbered I to XV east to west. Ranges were subdivided into townships of six square miles which were then further divided into lots of 360 acres. The lots could be broken into three sections of 120 acres each. Between 1798 and 1800, surveyors ran the lines of the ranges and townships. Following this, work began on internal surveys of the townships. When this was completed in 1819, the company increased its efforts to sell the land. The company sold its last tract of land (in Pennsylvania) in 1849 and was subsequently liquidated.
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