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Banyar, Goldsbrow. Land papers, 1728-1868.

Title: Land papers, 1728-1868.

The collection consists of legal instruments for the acquisition and conveyance of real property, such as Letters Patent (civilian and military) and their supporting documents, deeds of many kinds (generally using the English procedure of Lease and Release), mortgages, bankruptcy indentures, a prenuptial agreement, and agreement settling an estate in new trustees but also intended to protect a woman's rights to her legacy, and a guardianship agreement by a Loyalist appointing trustees for his children. Various other papers relating to property and estates include tenant leases, bonds, surveys, maps, memoranda, lists, affidavits, powers of attorney, certificates, abstracts and exemplifications, indemnifications, and some correspondence. Encompassing the years 1728-1868, the documents were created primarily in two periods: 1761-1775 and the 1790's. There are only a few scattered items after 1829. Some dated after Banyar's death pertain to earlier proceedings; the remainder may be family papers.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear ft. (15 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476520397 View

Hulbert collection, 1698-[ca. 1850], 1721-1796 (bulk).

Title: Hulbert collection, 1698-[ca. 1850], 1721-1796 (bulk).

Primarily 18th century manuscripts and documents related to British colonies in America. Also contains some 19th century American and British material. Largest amounts of material relate to Goldsbrow Banyar, New York colonial official, British military operations in North America, and colonial government in the Bahamas. Banyar documents, 1766-1770, relate to his duties as Register of Prerogative Court and deputy to George Clark, Secretary of Colony of New York, including letters to Gov. Henry Moore, petitions to the king, and other correspondence concerning Banyar and Clark's dispute with Moore over official duties. British military documents include Order in Council concerning troops in New Foundland [sic], 1698; act punishing those assisting Royal Navy deserters, 1760; instructions to Vice Admiral Durell regarding His Majesty's ships in North America, 1767 [sic]; records of His Majesty's 60th Royal American Regiment of Foot, Amhurst, 1777; other British army records, 1777-1780; receipts, correspondence, and orders of Captain Frederick De Deimar, Hussar officer, 1779-1791. Bahamas material includes correspondence requesting more troops in war with Spain, 1796; resolutions of Colonial House of Assembly, 1796; minutes of Legislative Council, 1795-1796. Also court depositions, wills, and other legal papers from Rhode Island, New York, and other colonies, 1721-1766; miscellaneous correspondence and broadsides, 1745-ca. 1850.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155450447 View

Johnson, William, Sir, 1715-1774. Papers, 1733-1808.

Title: Papers, 1733-1808.

This collection of Johnson's papers represents a significant number of Johnson's personal and business papers. The collection consists of several thousand individual documents ranging from bills and receipts to correspondence to household inventories. The collection includes materials seized by the State during the American Revolution and other materials acquired subsequently to supplement the collection. Included in this collection are correspondence, bills, accounts, records of public proceedings, official and military reports regarding Johnson as a land developer, records relating to Johnson's activities as a fur trader and his activities as Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Also included are papers relating to trade with the Indians; papers relating to Johnson's activities during the French and Indian War, particularly the Battle of Lake George in 1755; the construction of Johnson's homes, Fort Johnson and Johnson Hall; the erection of public buildings for use by the county seat in Johnstown, N.Y. and other papers reflecting Johnson's role as a prominent figure on the colonial frontier. The collection also contains materials relating to Johnson's activities as a land agent for his uncle Sir Peter Warren. Johnson acted as Warren's agent shortly after his immigration to America and managed Warren's Mohawk Valley lands. The collection was badly damaged in the 1911 New York State Capitol fire. Those documents that survived were published as Johnson Papers (see publications note). A published calendar of the collection was issued prior to the fire and the absence of particular documents is easy to ascertain (see publications note). The State Library holds other papers of Johnson and his family which are cataloged separately.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145407473 View

Mrs. Milan Hulbert collection of colonial British America and early United States of America papers, 1698-1846

Title: Mrs. Milan Hulbert collection of colonial British America and early United States of America papers 1698-1846

The Hulbert collection (1698-1846) consists principally of late eighteenth century documents related to colonial British America. The collection also includes documents from the American Revolution and early national period. The collection holds papers related to the British military presence in North America, including statistical reports (i.e., returns) for troops for several months in 1760 and documents compiled by Frederick de Deimar in connection with the Corps of Hussars (1779-1781) he raised for the British during the American Revolution. Non-military matters include correspondence, chiefly from Goldsbrow Banyar, Register of Prerogative Court and deputy to George Clark, Secretary of the Colony of New York, concerning a dispute among colonial New York officials over their respective rights to collect and receive patent and other fees (1766-1770). There are papers concerning the Bahamas (1795-1796), including correspondence, principally to and from colonial agent George Chalmers, and minutes of the Legislative Council. Among the other documents in the collection are land grants and indentures, a will, court filings, and other documents from New York State, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Florida. Several of these documents still have a large wax seal tied to them.

ArchivalResource: 2.6 Linear feet; in two flat boxes and one manuscript box.

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arc_278_hulbert_collection/arc_278_hulbert_collection.html View

Cockburn Family. Land papers, 1732-1864.

Title: Land papers, 1732-1864.

The Cockburn Family land papers are organized into three brief series - correspondence (on family history), legal and financial (miscellaneousdocuments not readily related to land transactions including accounts, court documents, slave bills of sale, etc.), and a series of miscellaneous writings. Drafts and excerpts of wills and estate matters for various persons are found throughout the collection.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (5 cu. ft.), 1,220 maps. (1,220 maps : manuscript ; 61 x 104.5 cm. or smaller)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122578338 View

Duane, James, 1733-1797. Duane and Featherstonhaugh family papers, 1666-1900 (bulk 1756-1900).

Title: Duane and Featherstonhaugh family papers, 1666-1900 (bulk 1756-1900).

Correspondence and papers, 1666- ca. 1900 (mostly 1756 - ca. 1900), of various members of the Duane, Featherstonhaugh, and related families. The major part of the collection is the papers of the New York lawyer, patriot, and land developer James Duane. There are also a substantial number of papers of Duane's son, James Chatham Duane, a lawyer of Duanesburgh and Schenectady, and of his son-in-law George William Featherstonhaugh, a geologist and resident of Schenectady, as well as smaller groups pertaining to Abraham, Anthony, Cornelius, and Mary Duane (wife of James Duane and daughter of Robert Livingston, Jr., third lord of Livingston Manor); and to William North, Hannah E. North, William North Duane, and the latter's mother, Mrs. A.D. Duane. The James Duane papers, ca. 1756-1798, comprise letters, deeds and other land papers, a large group of legal papers, miscellaneous certificates, commissions, bills, memoranda, etc., and pertain to such matters as: his practice of law in New York and New Jersey; relations with Great Britain and political affairs in the colonies prior to the Revolution; New York State's controversy with Massachusetts over the New Hampshire grants, and Duane's own holdings in the disputed area; his activities and interests as New York delegate to the Continental Congress, as the first federal judge for the district of New York, as a New York State senator, and as mayor of New York City; the settling of Duanesburgh, Schenectady County, New York; affairs of the Livingston family and of Livingston Manor; the settlement of estates; his property holdings in the Hardenburgh, Schuyler, and Franklin patents, and in New York City, Otsego County, Ulster County, and Socialborough, New Hampshire (now Rutland, Vermont); New York State boundaries; military and political events during the Revolutionary War; Indian affairs during the war; etc. Some of his more frequent correspondents were George Clinton, Robert R. Livingston, Horatio Gates, Philip Schuyler, Richard Varick, Walter Livingston, William Cockburn, John Myers, James Chalmers of London, Goldsbrow Banyar, Jacob Cuyler, Isabella Graham, John Jay, Robert Livingston, Jr., John McFarland, John Munro, John Patterson, John Morin Scott, Isaac Vrooman, Peter Van Schaack, and George Washington. Duane's notebooks, 1765-1789, contain daily notes on his activities, land transactions, and improvements at Duanesburgh, his Albany law practice, his service as delegate to Congress, including his expenses, Livingston Manor, a trip with Lafayette to Albany, travelling with Luzerne from Morristown to Philadelphia, depreciation of money, costs of lands withheld by the Vermonters, public roads out of Duanesburgh, etc. His legal papers - briefs, notes, declarations, narratives, arguments, etc. - pertain to such cases as: Ryer Schermerhorn vs. Harmanus Brandt; Rev. Joshua Bloomer vs. Robert Hinckman and Philip Edsal, church wardens of the parish of Jamaica; Peter Du Bois ads.. James Jackson ex dem. Daniel Terboss et al.; James Downes vs. Francis Child; John Elam vs. Adam Fisher; Ryer Schermerhorn, John Glen, et al. vs. Jacob Fonda; William Janeway et al. vs. John Frederick Herring; Johannes Hardenburgh ads. James Jackson ex dem. Daniel Terboss; the Rector of Trinity Church and inhabitants of the City of New York ads. James Jackson ex dem. Cornelius Brower; Rex vs. John Van Rensselaer; John Doe ex dem. Philip Verplanck et al. vs. Ezekiel Griffin; and many others. Many of the Featherstonhaugh papers pertain to George W. Featherstonhaugh's interest in agriculture and husbandry (he was corresponding secretary of the New York State Board of Agriculture), and his business interests, particularly during the 1820s, including the purchase of Wade Hampton's horse, Janus. There are also some letters and papers of his son, James Duane Featherstonhaugh, including technical data probably kept by him while working as a surveyor on the 1843-1845 Maine-Quebec boundary survey. The collection includes six recipe or cookbooks belonging to various members of the Duane family, 1740-1874.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear feet (23 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476013900 View

Cockburn, James. Survey map of Stephen Lush's land in Western, Oneida County, New York, 1789.

Title: Survey map of Stephen Lush's land in Western, Oneida County, New York, 1789.

A 1789 survey map by James Cockburn of 2,000 tracts of land granted to Stephen Lush in 1786 in Western, Oneida County (formerly Montgomery County), New York in what was Jellis Fonda's tract and divided in 1786 between Stephen Lush, Goldsbrow Banyar, John Lansing Jr. and Thomas Machin.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : manuscript, encapsulated ; 35.5 x 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86164606 View

John Bradstreet papers, 1773-1795

Title: John Bradstreet papers 1773-1795

Papers dated 1773-1795 relating to the affairs of British Major General John Bradstreet and his lands near the Hudson River, including a certificate of indebtedness; a deed from Morgan Lewis; a letter to Colonel Oliver De Lancey; materials from Robert R. Livingston relative to the Indians; contemporary copies of proceedings of the Council of New York concerning lands and Indians, certified by Robert Harpur and Goldsborough Banyar; and a deed of Sir Charles Gould transferring the Bradstreet tract. One paper is endorsed with the initials of Alexander Hamilton

ArchivalResource: .1 linear foot (1 folder)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4068 View

Lansing, Gerrit Yates, 1783-1862. Papers, 1783-1843.

Title: Papers, 1783-1843.

A large collection of personal, family and business papers of Lansing and his wife, Helen Ten Eyck. The Lansings and Ten Eyck's were large, extended families descended from the early Dutch settlers of Albany and the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. These papers reflect the extensive involvement that these families had in property ownership, government and commercial affairs in New York Colony and State. Included in the papers are assessment rolls for most of New York State between 1779 and 1802. Also included are quitrent accounts between 1762 and 1770; Ten Eyck and Lansing family correspondence; a significant number of papers dealing with the disposition of forfeited land during the American Revolution, accounts of land sold at public auction and several hundred individual land patents for lands throughout New York State. Of particular interest are several hundred receipts for goods and services purchased by Gerrit Lansing between 1820 and 1854 for food, clothing, blacksmith work and other domestic items.

ArchivalResource: K13324 17 boxes,24 vol.K13324a 18 boxes,1 package.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122629359 View

Remsen, Peter. Deed and map of lands in Staley and Frank Patents, German Flats and Columbia Townships, Herkimer County, New York, 1765.

Title: Deed and map of lands in Staley and Frank Patents, German Flats and Columbia Townships, Herkimer County, New York, 1765.

A September 18, 1765 deed from Hans Dederick Staley, the son of Rudolph Staley, and others, to Peter Remsen of New York City, of lands in German Flats and Columbia Townships, Herkimer County, New York originally granted to Staley and others in 1755.

ArchivalResource: 1 deed, 1 map.(1 survey map : manuscript, col. ; 61.5 x 71.5 cm. bound with 80 x 71.5 cm. sheets)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122578826 View

Stevens family. Papers, 1663-1959.

Title: Papers, 1663-1959.

Correspondence, estate papers, genealogy, photos, and other papers. Correspondents include James Alexander, William Alexander, Lord Stirling, John Jacob Astor, Goldsbrow Banyar, Thomas Bartow, Clement Biddle, Horace Binney, Joseph Bloomfield, Elias Boudinot, David Bearley, Aaron Burr, Philip Carteret, DeWitt Clinton, George Clinton, Cadwallader David Colden, John Colt, John Redman Coxe, William Coxe, Mahlon Dickerson, Philemon Dickerson, Jonathan Elmer, Lewis Evans, Theodosius Fowler, William Franklin, Robert Fulton, Moore Furman, Alexander Hamilton, William Churchill Houston, Peter Augustus Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James G. King, Rufus King, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, John Lawrence, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, James Madison, Robert Hunter Morris, David Ogden, Ferdinand John Paris, Elisha Parker, James Parker (1725-1792), William Paterson (1745-1806), Charles Read, Moses Rogers, Nicholas Roosevelt, Perez Rowley, Richard Rush, Walter Rutherfurd, John Smyth, William Thornton, Robert Treat, and John Waddell.

ArchivalResource: 60 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122600781 View

Survey map of Ten Eyck, Colden, Bleecker, Banyar, and Vrooman Lands, Schoharie County, New York, 1771.

Title: Survey map of Ten Eyck, Colden, Bleecker, Banyar, and Vrooman Lands, Schoharie County, New York, 1771.

A 1771 survey map of lands in Schoharie County, New York. The patent is unidentifed but may contain Myndert Schuyler's and shows Vroomans land as well as Jacob H. Ten Eyck, Alexander Colden, John R. Bleecker, and Goldsbrow Banyar. See Vrooman Family : survey map of Vrooman land, acc. no. 10258 and John R. Bleecker survey map of Myndert Schuyler Patent, acc. no. 4790.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : parchment, manuscript ; 33 x 67 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122574013 View