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Alexander Macomb, William Constable, and Daniel McCormick agreed to purchase nearly 4,000,000 acres (1,600,000 ha) from the state at the extremely low price of 8 pence (New York state money) per acre. [1] [2] This was an enormous amount of land, about one-eighth of the entire state of New York. Convinced something illegal must have occurred ...
Map of Phelps and Gorham Purchase 1802–1806. The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the sale, in 1788, of a portion of a large tract of land in western New York State owned by the Seneca nation of the Iroquois Confederacy to a syndicate of land developers led by Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham.
In 1899 Union College announced that, in order to pay off a $30,000 ($1,099,000 in contemporary dollars [3]) debt, it would sell two adjacent tracts of land.One, the College Meadow, was a 30-acre (12 ha) parcel to the west; the other, the College Woods, was 75 acres (30 ha) in size and located immediately to the east of the college.
In 1839, the last land in Western New York was sold off to local investors and settlers, and the Batavia office was closed. [2] Land sales in Pennsylvania were concluded in 1849, [7] and in 1856, the Philadelphia headquarters closed. [2] The company was formally dissolved in 1858. The town of Holland, New York was named after the company. [29]
The Philipse Patent was a British royal patent for a large tract of land on the east bank of the Hudson River about 50 miles north of New York City. It was purchased in 1697 by Adolphus Philipse , a wealthy landowner of Dutch descent in the Province of New York , and in time became today's Putnam County .
The Great Nine Partners Patent, also known as the "Lower Nine Partners Patent," was a land grant in Dutchess County, New York, made on May 27, 1697, by New York governor Benjamin Fletcher. The parcel included about four miles (6 km) along the Hudson River and was eight to ten miles (13 to 16 km) wide, extending from the Hudson River to the ...
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