Map of a Division of the Corlaers Kill Patent

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14

Identifier: MAP 2019.0006-7C.8

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Scope and Contents

This map is a color-coded drawing in ink on paper of a division of the Corlaers Kill Patent which encompassed an area approximately a mile north of the current Village of Catskill along the banks of the Hudson River. The map shows several creeks but no other defining landmarks. No buildings are shown nor names given for owners of particular lots, though the color-coding of individual parcels within the subdivision would allow determinations of ownership to be made. The map includes an explanation of the contents, and is signed by John Schuneman and Henry Oothoudt, with John Persen, Jr. and James Barker as witnesses.

Dates

1792

Biographical / Historical

A full description of the Corlaers Kill Patent can be found starting on Page 93 of "History of Greene County, New York with Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men" Published by J. B. Beers and Co. in 1884. The particular description was authored by Henry Brace.