Landholders of Northeastern New York 1739-1802

This work forms a directory of all participants in all land sales and mortgage agreements in northeastern New York between 1739 and 1802. The area covered includes all land within the present-day counties of Clinton Essex Franklin Warren and Washington. The first part identifies original grantees persons awarded land in the area between 1739 and 1775 and provided is the date of award name of grant present town of grant's location acreage and grantee's name. The second part and by far the largest identifies about 9000 landholders--grantees grantors mortgagees and mortgagors--whose land records were filed between 1772 and 1802 in the deed and mortgage books of Washington Clinton or Essex counties. In the various entries will be found the names of all persons engaged in land transactions the date of the transaction the place of residence of each of the principals and the volume and page of the original source book.