Found 2 collections related to Land grants

Deeds, leases, conveyances, etc. for property in New York City and the Cheesecock Patent, Orange County, New York. Most documents refer to lands acquired by Nathaniel and Thomas Marston. Includes a lot map by Charles Clinton, Jr. showing the subdivision of land in the Cheesecock Patent belonging to John Chambers, prepared at the request of John Jay, Thomas Marston, Augustus Van Cortlandt and John William Livingston less

Letters patent from King George II, through the Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of New York George Clarke, granting 2,600 acres of land to Anne, Sarah, Catherine, George, Elizabeth, and Mary Bradley, from the vacated patent of Captain John Evans, in Ulster County, New York. The document stipulates that they are to pay a yearly rent of two shillings, six pence per 100 acres, and that the use of gold, silver, and certain trees is reserved for the Royal Navy (March 6, 1739) less