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  2. Aboriginal title in New York - Wikipedia

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    Aboriginal title in New York refers to treaties, purchases, laws and litigation associated with land titles of aboriginal peoples of New York, in particular, to dispossession of those lands by actions of European Americans. The European purchase of lands from indigenous populations dates back to the legendary Dutch purchase of Manhattan in 1626 ...

  3. Macomb's Purchase - Wikipedia

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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, the ...

  4. Phelps and Gorham Purchase - Wikipedia

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    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. The larger tract of land is generally known as the "Genesee tract" and roughly encompasses all ...

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in New York

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    House at 3 Crown Street, Nelsonville, in Putnam County. New York State Capitol, in Albany County. Eagle Island Camp, Saranac Lake, in Franklin County. Empire State Building, Manhattan, in New York County. First Baptist Church of Painted Post, Painted Post, in Steuben County. Buffalo City Hall, Buffalo, in Erie County. County.

  6. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the ...

  7. Holland Land Company - Wikipedia

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    Holland Land Company. The Holland Land Company was an unincorporated syndicate of thirteen Dutch investors from Amsterdam, [1] headquartered in Philadelphia, [2] who purchased large tracts of American land for development and speculation. Their primary purchase was that of the western two-thirds of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase in 1792 and ...

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