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Case Flat File Drawer 14

 Container

Contains 24 Collections and/or Records:

Map of a Division of the Corlaers Kill Patent

 Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2019.0006-7C.8
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...

Map of Parcels adjoining Botsford [Thompson] Street in the Village of Catskill

 Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2019.0007-7G.6
Scope and Contents This map shows the owners and boundaries of a selection of parcels of land along what is now Thompson Street in the Village of Catskill covering east from Main Street covering just past New Street. Included are the names of property owners on each lot: Peter Bogards and James Bogardus, Abraham Bogardus, and an "M. Stevens."

Map of a Road near the Powder Mill

 Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2019.0012-7G.11
Scope and Contents Map is a small survey of a public road near a powder mill. This survey has no defining features or names of residents along the route of the road, but is marked as running northward from the Ulster County Line towards the powder mill location, indicating this may have been a mill within Greene County.

Map of Water Street, Catskill

 Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2019.0013-7G.5
Scope and Contents Map is a survey of Water Street in Catskill completed by John Van Vechten in 1838. Survey shows the blocks between Water Street and Main Street westward from Bridge Street to where Main and Water converge. The map is not particularly descriptive, but has an interesting rendering of the original bridge that crossed Catskill Creek at the foot of Main Street. Some property owners are named, but no buildings are shown.

Map of a Survey of a lot of land on the Jefferson Flats

 Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2019.0015-7G.4
Scope and Contents Map is a survey of a lot of land in Jefferson Heights lying along the Susquehanna Turnpike [Route 23B]. Included in the survey are the lots of James Stevens and of Columbus Stevens. No buildings are shown and no points of reference other than an intersecting road along the Turnpike.

Map of Henry Blanchard's Lot at Kiskatom

 Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2019.0011-7G.11
Scope and Contents Map is a small survey of the boundaries of Henry Blanchard's lands at Kiskatom, probably in the early 19th century. Of note is that a church is drawn in the corner of the map as a reference point to orient the survey. Whether this is the Kiskatom Reformed Church or not requires further examination.

Map of Kiskataminiska granted to H. Beekman and G. Livingston

 Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2019.0010
Scope and Contents This map shows a survey of the Kiskataminiska [Kiskatom] Patent originally granted in 1719 to Hendrick [Henry] Beekman and Hubertus [Gilbert] Livingston. The survey shows subdivided and leased lots as they appeared in 1771. Included on the map are the names of those living within and around the patent showing the locations of their homes. From the north end of the survey proceeding southerly appear the homes of Jacob Layman, Henry Schram, Cornelius Schermerhorn, Andrew Sharp, and Christian...

Map of a Patent on the Main Branch of the Shingle Kill upstream of the Forge

 Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2019.0008-7G.8
Scope and Contents Map shows the boundaries of a patent located in the modern Town of Cairo along the upper main branch of the Shingle Kill Creek. The patent was originally granted to "Lieutentant Duncan" and Neal McClains and Doctor Malachai Streat. Ephraim Darby completed a survey of the parcel in August 1794. The patent in question is shown on the map bordering the Cattskill [Catskill] Patent and the Shinglekill Patent. Also shown are the locations of several homes and mills within the patent boundaries - the...

Map of the Public Road leading from Henry Van Orden's to the Catskill Bridge

 Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2019.0003-7E.12
Scope and Contents This map is a selection of various size sheets of paper put together with sealing wax with its contents drawn with ink. The full title of the map is as follows: "A map and survey of the public road from Henry Van Orden's to the Catskill Bridge showing the private roads that have been in use for the different farms." Included are the various farms of the Overbaugh, Van Orden, Winne, Wynkoop, Sax, and Trumpbour families. The location of creeks, roads, survey boundaries, and homes are shown....

Map of a tract of land on the Caterskill belonging to Heskia, Tobias, and Peter Wynkoop and Christian and Johannis Myres

 Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2019.0004-7C.1
Scope and Contents Map contains a color-coded survey of 1,666 acres of land jointly purchased by the Myres [Myers] and Wynkoop Families. The tract purcahsed fell on both sides of the Albany/Ulster County Line and was situated along the Caterskill [Kaaterskill] Creek just east of the modern hamlet of Palenville, possibly in the vicinity of High Falls. The map shows a variety of interesting things. It contains the surveyed boundaries of the full tract broken into colored lots - a faded blue or green for the Wynkoop...