Found 4 collections related to Conveyances

Collection consists almost exclusively of land papers, such as indentures, partition deeds, quit claims, mortgages, tax bills, receipts, estate papers, and a map relating to New York City real estate owned by members of the Staples and Sherman families, particularly John and William Staples and Elizabeth Sherman. Other documents concern legal disputes pertaining to these properties. The properties documented are predominantly located in lower Manhattan and the Lower East Side. less

William Wilson (1756-1828) of Clermont, Columbia County, New York, was a physician, postmaster, and judge, and an estate manager for the Livingston family at Clermont. The William Wilson family papers, 1792-1884, comprise professional and personal correspondence of William Wilson and his sons Robert L. Wilson and William H. Wilson; correspondence among family members, including letters from Stephen B. Wilson during his U.S. Navy service; documents recording real property transactions, mostly in Columbia County; notebooks and maps of land surveys conducted in Columbia and Dutchess Counties, signed by John Wigram, Alexander Thompson and others; financial and legal documents; and printed ephemera. The papers chiefly pertain to Wilson's management of business affairs for the Livingston family, as well as for himself, and his own engagement in political and civic affairs in Columbia County; roles carried on to some extent by his son William H. Wilson. Also included are professional certificates and printed matter. William Wilson's notable correspondents include Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Edward P. Livingston (1779-1843), Nicholas Romayne (1756-1817), and Richard Varick (1753-1831). less

Land papers executed by Dr. Thomas Ruston, a physician of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (A.B. College of New Jersey, 1762 and M.D., University of Edinburgh, 1765). Ruston conveyed to Levi Hollingsworth, merchant of Philadelphia, 51,000 acres of land in Washington County, Georgia on November 22, 1794; to Mary Ruston, 15,287 acres and 99 square rods in Washington County, Massachusetts (now part of Maine); to Thomas Ruston, the younger, 251,000 acres in Franklin County, Georgia and 10,000 acres in Richmond County, Georgia; to Charlotte Ruston, 92,160 acres in the District of Ninety-six in South Carolina; 11,399 acres and 51 square rods in Washington County, Massachusetts; and 10,000 acres in Camden County, Georgia. Inclusive dates are 1794-1796 less