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A Ledger Containing Maps and Descriptions of Lands at Catskill Point.

Item — Container: Manuscript Shelves

Identifier: MV 1713

Scope and Contents Ledger contains maps corresponding to descriptions of deeds filed at the Greene County Clerk's office for lands on the east side of Catskill Creek covering the neighborhoods of lower/middle Main Street and Catskill Point. Original Deed descriptions commence apparently with purchases by John Cantine around 1795, and each described patent or parcel contains a chain of custody for subsequent divisions of each lot dating forward to the 1870s. Terms used to describe features in the original patents...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

A Map of a Tract of Land on the Northerly side of the Schoharie Kill in the Great Hardenbergh Patent.

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 6

Identifier: MAP 2022.0019-2.6

Scope and Contents The full title of this survey is "A Map of a tract of land on the Northerly side of the Schoharie Kill in the Great Hardenbergh Patent the property of Bacon, Tomlison, and Day surveyed and run into lots in the Month of July AD 1786 by William Cockburn and John Cox." As such, the map is a highly detailed and color coded rendering of a more or less rectangular plot spanning from the Batavia Kill southward to the Schoharie Kill where it meets with the East Kill. Built landscape...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

A Map of Catskill and Catskill Point

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 13

Identifier: MAP 2022.0011-7B.28

Scope and Contents This manuscript survey map shows signs that it was previously bound, and bears no indication as to by whom the map was drafted or what purpose it served. The survey shows the southern section of the east side of the Village of Catskill, being the lands east of Catskill Creek and south of William Street extending to Catskill Point and the banks of the Hudson River. All roads are shown and labeled with lots of land drawn filled in only for specific areas. The properties thus described are at the...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

A Map of David Abeel's Division and the Lands Belonging to William Cockburn

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 13

Identifier: MAP 2022.0014-7.25

Scope and Contents This extensive survey of the lands east and south of the Kiskatamanisha Patent [Kiskatom] shows the divided lands of David Abeel made among his heirs as well as the lands of William Cockburn and his family to the south on ajoining patents. The map's bounds extend northward to the boundaries of the Catskill and Kiskatamanisha Patents, westward to the lands of Vicnent Matthews and others, south to the Pantent of Cornelius Ten Broeck, and east to the banks of the Caders Kill [Kaaterskill...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

A Map of David Abeel's Farm at Cauders Kill

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 13

Identifier: MAP 2022.0013-7.23

Scope and Contents This map shows a selection of the lands of David Abeel, Garrett Abeel, Catherine Abeel, Anthony Abeel, and their neighbors situated along the Cauders Kill [Kaaterskill Creek] in the Town of Catskill. The lands of various family members and neighbors are delineated with separate colored lines, and both built and natural landscape features are shown. Included is an accurate rendering of the course of the Kaaterskill Creek and the high bluffs that overlook it where the old Catskill Turnpike [State...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

A Map of the Division Line between the Towns of Catskill and Coxsackie

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 13

Identifier: MAP 2022.0015-3.20

Scope and Contents This map shows a section of the division line between the towns of Catskill and Coxsackie running from the mouth of Murderer's Creek near Loonenburg westward towards Cairo. Water features are the only geographic reference shown on the map, and any homes and roads which the line passed on its westward course are shown and described. Settlements are shown at Loonenburg, near Shinglekill, and on what may be Sandy Plains.

Found in: Vedder Research Library

A Map of the Lands of Henry Burhans and Others

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 13

Identifier: MAP 2022.0008-7E.12

Scope and Contents The full title of this survey is "A Map of the lands of Henry Bruhans and Temperance his wife, and John Langendyck, Jr. and Elizabeth his wife in the Town of Catskill, County of Greene. Divided between them by order of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York 29th April 1815.As such, the map reflects a color-coded division of a selection of lands on the Embought at the southeastern corner of the Town of Catskill extending from the Hudson River to the Kaaterskill...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

A Map of the Patent of Kiskatamanishe Laid Into Lots

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 13

Identifier: MAP 2022.0016-7.29

Scope and Contents This map of the Kiskatom Patent, lying north of the modern hamlet of Palenville in the western part of the Town of Catskill, was prepared by William Cockburn showing its division among three proprietors following the Revolutionary War. The patent was originally granted to Hybartus Livingston and Henry Beekman in 1718 and 1719, first as a grant of 390 acres and subsequently enlarged by 2000 acres. The proprietors of the patent upon its division in 1789 are given as Jacob Schermerhorn or his...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

A Map shewing the relative situation of a tract of Land belonging to J. B. Church Esqr.

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 13

Identifier: MAP 2022.0012-2C.2

Scope and Contents This map is intended to illustrate the context of the Church family's lands in relation to the transportation infrastructure and existing settlements in the middle states and western New York at that time. As such, the map shows all of the tate of New York south of the Adirondack Mountains, the western and southern portions of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont, all of eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and a small part of northern Maryland. Emphasis is given to showing the extents of...

Found in: Vedder Research Library

A Map whereon is designated the Line Run by Agreement between the Hardenbergh Patent and the Patent of Blenheim

Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 1

Identifier: MAP 2022.0018-2C.24

Found in: Vedder Research Library

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