Some basic info on some of the Purchases, Patents and Tracts within Hamilton County.
Some background: A patent or purchase is the term used when the land was given or purchased by one individual or group. These purchases may have been subdivided into towns, which were either numbered or named or both. Each town was then further divided into lots, which were numbered. These towns usually have little or no relation to the townships of today. A tract is a term for land that was subdivided and sold in pieces to various individuals.
Measuring terms for deeds, etc.:
rod = 5.5 yards
chain = 4 rods or 66 feet
furlong = 10 chains, 40 rods or 660 feet [660 feet squared is 10 acres]
Purchase, Patent or Tract name approx.
acres in
1000sother Patents or Tracts listed
being within this one.location Amherst Patent 20 - Lake Pleasant Arthurboro Patent 47 Bethune Tract
Maxwell Tract
Tefft Tract
Morehouse 8,000 Acre TractMorehouse Benson Tract 62 - Arietta (small part)
BensonBergen's Purchase 20 - Hope
WellsJohn Brown's Tract ? - Inlet
Herkimer countyLawrence Tract 135 - Arietta
MorehouseMoose River Tract 207 - Arietta
Morehouse
Herkimer countyOxbow Tract 70 - Arietta
Lake PleasantPalmer's Purchase 135 Glen and Yates Patent
Livingston Patent
Lefferts TractHope
Wells
Saratoga county
Warren countyTotten and Crossfield Purchase 1150 Amherst Patent
Balfour's Patent
Bishop's Patent
Campbell's PatentEssex county
Hamilton county
Herkimer county
Warren countyVrooman's Patent 14 - Morehouse Sources:
- "History of Hamilton County," by Ted Aber and Stella King, 1965
- "The Great Forest of the Adirondacks," by Barbara McMartin, North Country Books, Utica, NY, 1994.
- "Gazetteer of the State of New York," by J. H. French: Published by R. Pearsall Smith, 1860.
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