Rochester, N.Y., land claim hearing files, 1787-1926.

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Rochester, N.Y., land claim hearing files, 1787-1926.

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The Massachusetts attorney general brought suit in 1921 in the U.S. Supreme Court against the state of New York, the city of Rochester, and various corporations and individuals, claiming continuing ownership by Massachusetts of a parcel of land bordering and lying under Lake Ontario at Rochester, per provisions of an agreement reached in Dec. 1786 (Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Agreement between Massachusetts and New York relating to western lands ((M-Ar)31X)). A special master appointed by the court issued a report in 1925 denying the Massachusetts claim, a conclusion upheld by the court itself (Massachusetts v. New York, 271 U.S. 65 (1926)). Series was evidently created by the attorney general's staff in the process of preparing and arguing the case.

0.7 cubic ft. (2 doc. boxes)

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