MOHAWK VALLEY MAPS AND SKETCHES

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Please note, however, that a majority of the maps display a Compass Needle upon them and a few display the Compass Rose. Thus, it may be necessary for one to rotate the map in order to read some of the inscriptions upon it. Again, one would be wise to download these maps to their own storage device and to then view them with a good graphics display program. One must also note that our north was not necessarily their north. Although the Earth’s magnetic poles are said to be “fixed,” it must still be noted that the poles follow an elliptical orbit themselves which causes the magnetic compass needle to vary from “Polaris” or "True North" by as much as 15 degrees through a complete cycle. The point being that their “north” could easily be multiple degrees east or west from our current knowledge of “north.” This difference in north is called “Magnetic Deviation” or “Magnetic Declination.” A magnetic declination chart provided by the Northeastern Association Surveyors is available here in PDF format. One must note, however, that it is absolutely essential to determine the longitude and latitude of the area in question for the chart to be grossly accurate. These necessary details can be roughly determined by using US Geological Survey topographical maps or National Aeronautic and Aviation charts. Many of the topographical maps for the Mohawk and Schoharie Valley regions are available at such sites as M9:08 AM 7/24/2008ap Tech’s www.historical.maptech.com, & others. As some of these maps may not be in the " Public Domain, the author would appreciate it if you would contact him prior to reproducing them for any use other than your own research. Thank You! A Map exhibiting the Original Patents in the Eastern and Northern portions of the Sate of New York. This is Map #715 in "The Maps of the New York Secretary of State" in the New York State Land Management Office on the 26th Floor of the Corning Office Building of the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York. This map demonstrates the 1769 compass heading of the Indian Boundary Line 1769, which separates the lands of the Colony of New York. As the map does not show the succession of the Iroquois Nation's lands to the State of New York, it is assumed the map was drawn prior to the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix in which the Iroquois' lands were surrender to the State of New York, and sometime after the Year 1768. An effort is underway to re-scan the map in an effort to reduce the Mylar sheen and to better demonstrate the southern most patents on the map [KDJ]. A map produced circa 1790 by New York State General Surveyor Simeon De Witt, Esquire demonstrating the various land patents of the Lower Schoharie Valley and south-western Tryon County. This maps, and the one immediately before it, are intended to assist the researcher in orientating themselves as to the approximate locations of the following patents maps and sketches in relation to the Mohawk River, the Schoharie Creek, the Charlotte River, and the Hudson or North River. A Map of Lands on the Southside the Mohawk River between Canajoharie & the German Flatts for Philip Livingston surveyed in 1771. This "map" was generated by William Cockburn of Kingston, New York in 1771. The map is significant in that it shows the approximate location of Fort Henry in relation to the surrounding land patents, and the presence of a church [assumed to be the German Reformed Church at Canajoharie] near the site of Sand Hill on the Rutger Bleeker Patent. It also shows such curiosities as the oOCastle on the west bank of the Onawdage Creek and the Onandaga Cas[ ] on the east bank of the said Onawdage creek, which is now known as the Nowadaga Creek and both are very near the modern-day Indian Castle Church. The James Alexander - Lewis Moris Patent. This map is found within the New York State Library's Samuel Ludlow Frey Collection Mss #SC9829: Box 6 Folder 129. The patent is the site of the modern Village of Canajoharie, New York. It is often mistakenly called the "Canajoharie Patent." See the Abraham Van Horne Patent for clarification of the true identity & location of the original "Canajoharie Patent." A map of the Goldsbrow Banyar Patent. This map is found within "The Goldsbrow Banyar Papers," Collection #DU10723, Box 8 Volume 3, of the New York State Library's Manuscripts Collection in Albany, New York. This patent's northern border is formed by the Greater or Northern Portion of the New Durlough Patent, which was granted to Jacob Borst, Mathew Bowen, Goldsboro Banyar, William Spornheyer, Maria Margrieta Greslaer, and others. Its southern-western edge adjoins an unnamed tract & the William Ernest Spornheyer Patent, The eastern edge adjoins the Johannes Bleeker Patent. The southern edges adjoin the the unnamned tract & and the Lessor or Soutern Portion of the Jacob Borst or New Durlough Patent. The West Kill forms the patent's western border. The map seems to show the names of the individuals to whom lot titles were transferred by Mister Banyar, but this remains unconfirmed. The map is in excellent good condition. A map showing the lots of the various divisions of the Rutger Bleeker Patent. A map showing the layout of the lots within the 1732, 1739, and 1772 Divisions of the Otsquago and Rutger Bleeker Patents in the Town of Minden drawn for the author of The Bloodied Mohawk by Miss Marilyn J. Cramer of Silver Springs, Maryland. A map of the 1732 &, 1742 Divisions of the Otsquago Patent (The First Allotment of the Rutger Bleeker Patent) Bleeker & the Rutger Bleeker Patent (The Second Allotment of the Rutger Bleeker Patent) in the Town of Minden taken from the Otsquago Patent Papers, Mss #10816 in the New York State Library. The map demostrates Home Lots 2-10, Lowland Lots 2-10, the various "Island Lots" of Abeel's Island, and the Wood Land Lots associated with these two divisions. See also the map of the 1772 Division of the Otsquago Patent (The First Allotment of the Rutger Bleeker Patent) Bleeker & the Rutger Bleeker Patent (The Second Allotment of the Rutger Bleeker Patent). The 1772 Division of the Otsquago Patent (The First Allotment of the Rutger Bleeker Patent) Bleeker & the Rutger Bleeker Patent (The Second Allotment of the Rutger Bleeker Patent) in the Town of Minden taken from Map #527 in the "New York State Secretary of State's Maps Collection" in the Office of Land Management in Albany, New York. The map is significant as the small diamond within the square tract taken from the western portion of Expense Lot "A" demonstrates the most likely site of Fort Plank. This division is also the site of Expense Lot A   home of the "Church Lot", a sublot of Expense Lot A, site of the "Reformed German Church of Canajoharie" & Fort Plank; and Expense Lot B site of the modern day Red Mill of Fort Plain, the Mount Auban Cemetery or Fort Plain Cemetery Association Cemetery, the Lipe Family Burial Ground, the likely site of the Fourth New York Regiment's "Camp Near Fort Plank", & the Mills of John A. Lipe. This map of the Jacob Borst, Mathew Bowen, Barent Heironymus Keyser, et al Patent of February 21, 1752: the New Durlock Patent. The patent is also commonly referred to as The New Dorlach Patent. This map is found within "The Johannis Lawyer Papers," Collection #SC16480, Box 1 in the New York State Library in Albany. The Patent is bordered on the north by the Johannis Lawyer, Jacob Borst, et al Patent of 1761, and the Johannes Bleeker Junior Patent. On the east it is bordered by Johannes Bleeker Junior Patent. On the south it is bordered by the Goldsbrow Banyar Patent. It is bordered on the west by the West Kill, (which is the eastern border of the William Ernst Spornheyer Patent and the eastern border of a gore in the southern portion of the Johannis Lawyer, Jacob Borst, et al Patent of 1761. A map showing the lots of the Arent Bradt - Phillip Livingston Patent. This map is located in Map Drawer 14 within the cellar of the Montgomery County Clerk's Office in Fonda, New York. The Burnetsfield Patent. This map is found in the Maps of the New York State Surveyor's Office and is currently housed in the New York State Archives in Collection #AO273. The map is in good condition. [N.B. All of the maps in this collection are yellowed on their left hand sides from the effects of long-term storage prior to their arrival in the archives. The Butlersbury Patent. This map is found within "The Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Portfolio E - Map #893. The tract consists of four patents apparently arranged with Marian Scott's patent on the west; John Miln's Patent next to it on the east; Walter Butler's Patent on the eastern side of Miln's; and the Charles Williams' Patent which forms a gore to the east of Butler's Patent. The tract is adjoined on the south by the John Collins or Caughnawaga Patent; on the west by the Abraham Gouverneur Patent, though in many early histories it is referred to as the James Alexander Patent; on the north by Kingsborough; and, on the northeast by the Sacondago Patent. The was drawn by Jeremiah Van Renssealer, one of the Commissioner of Forfeitures for the Western District, from a survey performed by Isaac Vrooman in April of 1761. The map bears the autograph signature of Mister Van Rensselaer and is in relatively good condition. [N.B. The above mentioned Walter Butler is not the Captain Walter Butler, son of Colonel John Butler, who was killed on the West Canada in the fall of 1781 (KDJ)]. The William Corry Patent. This map is found with in the maps of the Commisioners of Forfeitures Collection in New York State Archives Collection #AO273 - Portfolio E Map #878. The map is in very good condition. Cadawalder Colden's Portion the George Croghan Patent. This map is found within "The Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Portfolio E - Map #864. A 1772 rough surveyor's sketch of this same tract of land drawn by William Cockburn is found in the Cockburn Family Papers, Manuscript Collection #SC7004, of the New York State Library in Albany, New York in Box 4 Folder 2. This earlier sketch roughly the locations of Henry Herkimer's Home and that of ____ Schuyler. A map of the John Collins or Caughnawaga Patent found within the New York State Library's Samuel Ludlow Frey Collection Mss #SC9829: Box 6 Folder 129. The patent is the site of the modern Village of Fonda, New York. The Countery of the five Nations. A circa 1755 map demonstrating the Settlements of the Mohawk Valley, Central New York (from roughly the City of Rochester eastward), and the Upper Hudson Valley. It also demonstrates the then in existence Indian Trails and Kings Roads. The original map is found in the Map Collections of the United States' Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and is cataloged as Map No. 156. A second map showing a portion of the Five Nations Lands entitled the Country Between the Mohawk River and [the] Wood Creek from an Actual Survey in November of 1758 is also available here. This second map, Map #FI MVA.1. is found in the Oneida County Historical Society in Utica, New York and is cataloged as Item #1964.244. One should note that there exists one major discrepancy between the Library of Congress map and the Onedia County Historical Society map: The location of the "New Oneida Castle" and the "Old Oneida Castle" are transposed. This author believes that the southern site is probably the more correct location. The settlement marked as Kasses is west of the Village of Herkimer. The settlement marked Rynards is just to te west of the Village of Ilion. Other maps of the area drawn immediately prior to the American Revolution denote "Rynard" as the westernmost [white] settler. Fort Plank's Block House. A sketch of the Fort Plank Block House taken from William Letee Stone, Senior's Life of Joseph Brant, Volume One, Appedix One. The Conradt Frank Patent. See the Rudolph Staley Patent, Third Tract. A map of Glen's Purchase taken from Volume 13 of New York State Letters Patent, New York State Archives Collection #12943-78. This patent is also commonly referred to in Colonial Records as "Reimenschnider's Bush". The eastern portion of this patent lies within the Town of Herkimer; the south central and eastern portions lie within the Town of Little Falls; and, the northern portion within lies within the Town of Fairfield, all within Herkimer County, New York. A map of the John Groesbeck Patent, which is more commonly referred to as "The Springfield Patent" or "Waggoner's Tract". This map is found within "The Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Portfolio E - Map #866. This map is significant in its showing of the "Landing Place" on Lake Otsego where General James Clinton landed his boats for the invasion of the "Indian Territories", "the Road from Cramer's to the Lake" and other nearby roads. The Patent is now located in the Town of Springfield in Otsego County. A digital scan of this map is also available here. A map of the Abraham Gouverneur - James Alexander Patent found within the New York State Library's Samuel Ludlow Frey Collection Mss #SC9829: Box 6 Folder 140. The patent is the site of the modern Village of Fonda, New York. The Francis Harrison Patent. This map is found within "The Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Portfolio E - Map #865. The map includes Klock's Purchase and is in poor condition. The patent was bordered on the north & east by Klock's Purchase; on the south by the Harmanus Van Slyck/Abraham DePeyster Patent; on the west by the Van Dreisen Patent. The eastern portion of this patent lies within the Town of Palatine, while the western portion of the patent lies within the Town of Saint Johnsville. The western lots of this patent were the site of the "running battle" which is now known as the Battle of Klock's Field &/or Failing's Orchard. It is also the site of "Fort Klock', the fortified homestead of Johannes Klock, The Nellis Tavern, and the Village of Saint Johnsville. N.B. The lower or southern end of patent was also known as the John Schuyler Patent. This lower portion is believed to have been divided into four lots, but to date, no contemporary map can be found to show the exact angles of its lot lines [KDJ]. A map showing the lots of the James Henderson Patent. This patent is also known as the Andrustown Patent or Petrie's Purchase. The Theobald Young Patent abutt it on the south. Though it seems unlikely, the Revolutionary War era road leading from the patent to the Mohawk River ended at or near Fort Plank, thus making attacks on it more dangerous to the Canajoharie Settlements than those on the German Flatts. This map is found within "New York State Comptroller's Maps" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Map #170. A map showing the lots of the Jersey Field Patent. This map is found within "New York State Comptroller's Maps" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Map #170. The patent is bordered on the south by the Royal Grant. It was on this patent that Indians and Rebel Scouts serving under Lieutenant Colonel Marinus Willett encountered Major John Ross' forces on October 30, 1771, driving them to cross the West Canada Creek. This skirmish resulted in the death of Captain Walter Butler on the western bank of the West Canada Creek. The Kast Family's Patent of June 22, 1724. A map of the August 27, 1768 of the 1379 acres of land granted by Letters Patent to Anna Kast, wife of Johan Jurgh Kast, Lodewick, Sarah, Dorothy, Margaret, Elisabeth, Mary, and Anna Mary Children of the said Johan Jurgh Kast and to Gertruy Kast wife of Johan Jurgh Kast Junr Sarah and Dorothy Children of the said Johan Jurgh Kast Junr. The patent begins at a Certain Hill there about sixty chains below a brook there Called by the Indians Roxcetoth. The maps bears the autograph signatures of Hendrick Frey, Yan Van Buren, Peter Yates, and Surveyor Chrisr Yates. This is Map #460 of the New York State Secretary of State’s Collection in the Bureau of Land Management on the 26th Floor of the Corning Tower in the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York. A portion of the modern Village of Herkimer lies within the patent. The Kingsborough & Mayfield Patent . This map is found within "The Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Portfolio E - Map #859. This map is in very poor condition and the bright ribbon and blotch seen on the left hand side of this map are caused by a special mylar sleeve which protects the map from further damage. By saving this map to your computer and using a high quality graphics viewer, you will be able to clearly see the details within the mylar effect [KDJ]. Klock's Purchase . This map is found within "The Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Portfolio E - Map #865. The map includes the Francis Harrison Patent and is in poor condition. The patent was bordered on the west by Harrison's Patent; on the south by the Harmanus Van Slyck/Abraham DePeyster Patent; on the west by the Petrus Van Dreisen Patent. The map is in very poor condition. The Jacob Lansing Patent. This map is found within "The Maps of the Surveyor General of the State of New York" and is located in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273. The patent was bordered on the north & northesterly most edge by the ecker Patent; westerly by the Fifth Allotment of the Abraham Van Horne Patent & the Colden-Rightmeyer Patent; on the south by the Waggoner/Weiser Patent and in the extreme southwestern corner by the Otsquago Creek; on the extreme easterly edge by the Waggoner/Weiser Patent. The western portion of this patent lies within Herkimer County. The map is in very good condition. This map of the Johannis Lawyer Patent is found in the Johannis Lawyer Papers (Mss #SC16480) of the New York State Library in Albany, New York. The patent is bordered on the north, the northeast, and the west by the Frederick Young Patent. On the east it is bordered by the William Correy Patent. On the south it is bordered by the New Durloch Patent. The soutwestern portion portion of the patent adjoins the Stephen Skinner Patent. A map of the John Lindsey or Cherry Valley Patent drawn in 1844 by David Gilbert. The original is housed in the Special Collections of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, New York. It is in very poor condition and is fragmented into four sections, it was also damaged by an early attempt to repair it with "scotch tape" prior to its arrival in the NYSHA Archives. A map of the John Lindsey-Philip Livingston Patent prepared to aid in dividing the estate of George Herkimer, deceased. It is housed in the New York State Library's Samuel Ludlow Frey Collection (Mss #SC9829 Box 6 Folder 144). It is in fair condition. The buildings demonstrated near the center of the top of the map are those of Brigadier General Nicholas Herkimer, deceased. The patent is bordered on the west by the Johann Jost Herkimer Patent and on the east by the ____ Vaughn Patent. One should note that Edward Holland purchased the entire three thousand acre patent from Lindsey and Livingston prior to its division into individual lots; and, as a result it is commonly refered to as the "Edward Holland Patent" . The Philip Livingston Patent. The Philip Livingston & Frederick Young Patents. This map of the Livingston and Young Patents is found within the "Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York, Collection #AO273, Portfolio E, Map #894. The map is in fair condition. These patents were bordered on the south and south-west by the John Lindsey or Cherry Valley Patent; on the south-east by the Frederick Young Patent; & in the north by the Otsquago Creek and the Conrad Countryman Patent; and, on the west by the John McNeile Patent. An earlier map of the patents was drawn in 1767 by Surveyor William Cockburn, and is found within the Manuscripts Collection of the New York State Library in Albany, New York (Mss #XM19890). The Cockburn is map is in very good condition. A map of The Abraham Lott Patent. This map is found in a collection of maps taken from the New York State Court of Chancery Minutes, Collection #J8000, in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York. The map is in very good condition. The patent is bordered on the south by the Sarah Magin Patent. A map of The Sarah Magin Patent taken from a map found within "The Goldsbrow Banyar Papers," SC10723 Box 6 Folder 14, of the New York State Library's Manuscripts Collection in Albany, New York. This map is in very good condition. A digital scan of another map of this patent found within the "The Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York (Collection #AO273, Portfolio E - Map #865) is available here. The Commissioners of Forfeitures Map is in poor condition and it should be noted that this map is paired, as Map 7 of Collection #AO273, with a map of the Francis Harrison Patent and Klock's Purchase. The Mayfield Patent. This map is found within "The Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Portfolio E - Map #859. The John McNiel Patent of 1769. This map is presented in two portions: North and South. This map was found in Volume 36, page 514 of the New York State Archives Collection #AO453-79. An 1849 Surveyor's Map of the "new" line separating the Town of Minden from the Town of Canajoharie as specified by New York State Law. The original line began in the middle of the Ostquago Creek as it entered the Mohawk River and ran westward in the middle of the said creek to where the Otsquene Creek empties into the Otsquago Creek and from that point southerly in a straight line to the north-easternmost corner of the Springfield or John Groesbeck Patent. The movement of this line transferred the settlements of "Freysbush" and "Hessville" from the Town of Canajoharie to the Town of Minden. A map of the great lots of the Lewis Morris Patent found within Map Drawer 14 in the cellar of the Montgomery County, New York Clerk's Office. The map is in fragile condition and is danger of being lost due to standing water and high humidity within the vault. The map was incorrectly labeled the Canajoharie by the transcriber who was apparently unaware that the true Canajoharie Patent is now known as the Abraham Van Horne Patent located with in the Town of Minden in Montgomery County and the Town of Danube in Herkimer County. The creek which the patent straddles was known during the American Revolution as “Bowmans Creek” or “Schremlings Kill”. Where the current myth that “Canajoharie” translates “to the pot that washes itself’ is unknown, but was probably invented by Jeptha R. Simms. David K. Faux, a descendant of the Mohawk Nation, stated once to the author that the term more properly translates to “the pot which boils” and that the “true” Canajoharie was one of the three sacred sites of the Iroquois Confederacy. The Oswego, Onondaga, and Mohawk River Valleys Circa 1758. Oneida County Historical Society Map FI MVA.1. Catalog Number 1964.244. A portion of a 1768 map of the East-Central New York entitled The PROVINCES of NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY; with part of PENSILVANIA, and the Governments of TROIS RIVERES, and MONTREAL: DRAWN by CAPT HOLLAND. Engraved by THOMAS JEFFERYS, Geographer to His MAJESTY . The original map is found in the Map Collections of the United States' Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and is cataloged as Map #ar103900. A portion of a 1776 map of East-Central New York entitled The PROVINCES of NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY; with part of PENSILVANIA, and the Province of QUEBEC. Drawn by MAJOR HOLLAND, SURVEYOR GENERAL, of the NORTHERN DISTRICT in AMERICA. Corrected and Improved, from the Original Materials, By GOVERNR POWNALL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT 1776. The original map is found in the Map Collections of the United States' Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and is cataloged as Library of Congress Map #ct00008. A MAP OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK, with Part of PENSILVANIA , AND NEW ENGLAND, From an Actual Survey by Captain Montresor , ENGINEER, 1775. Publish'd as the Act directs. June 10th. 1775 by A. Dury, Dukes Court St Martins Lane London. [Presented] TO THE RIGHTS HONORABLE Sir Jeffery Amherst KNIGHT of the BATH, and Lieutenant General of his Majesty's Forces &c&c&c. This Map of the Province of NEW YORK , is humbly Inscribed His most obliged Humble Servant John Montresor Engineer. The original map is found in the Map Collections of the United States' Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and is cataloged as Map #ar106600. A MAP of The Provinces NEW-YORK and NEW-JERSEY, with a part of PENNSYLVANIA and the Province of QUEBEC. From the Topographical Observations of C. J. SAUTHIER. AUGSBURG Engraved and Published by MATTHEW ALBERT LOTTER. 1777. The original map is found in the Map Collections of the United States' Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and is cataloged as Map # ar104801. Sir William Johnson's Royal Grant. This map is found within the Maps of the New York State Surveyor General housed in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York, Collection #AO273 Map #142. A more detailed map of The Fourth Allotment of The Royal Grant is also availbale here. This second map is found within "The Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Portfolio E - Map #867. The bulk of the Royal Grant is located within Herkimer County. The bulk of the Fourth Allotment itself lies within the Town of Manheim. A map depicting the land patents of the Upper Schoharie Valley, westernmost Albany County, & Northern Ulster County, New York. This map is found within the Maps of the New York State Surveyor General housed in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York, Collection #AO273 Map #140. This map displays the location of "Cook House" and many early settlements such as Batavia, Crumlinesburgh, Papakunk, Paughcatacan, Queens Seat, & amp; Verplanksburgh. The David Schuyler Patent. This map is found in the maps of the New York State Comptroller's Office Collection in the New York State Archives, Collection #AO273, Map #155. The map is in very good condition. This patent encompasses the head & abutts the northwestern shore of Lake Caniaderago. The said lake is also referred to as "Schuyler's Lake" and even occasionally as "Herkimer's Lake." Lot 85 (the north-easternmost lot) was granted to Conrad Mathise is often referred to in tax records and deeds as the "Conrad Mathise Patent." The Rudolph Staley Patent. This map is found in "The Maps of the New York State Surveyor" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273. This tract of land partially borders the historic "Burnetsfield Patent". The Third Tract of the Staley Patent is also known as the Frank Patent and appears as such in "The Maps of the New York State Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Portfolio E - Map #873. A more definitive photo of the inscription upon the Commissioner of Forfeiture's Map can be found here. The Stone Arabia or Christian Garlock-Andreas Fink Patent. This map shows the Settlers of some of the lots of the First Division of The Stone Arabia Patent taken from a map found in File 5, Drawer 14 in the Office of the Montgomery County Clerk in Fonda, New York. On the reverse of the map is a list of The Names of the Settlers & the Numbers of the Lots they Occupied, and an inscription explaining the conditions the Palatine Settlers were to adhere to maintain possession. A traced map of the complete patent is also available here. The Petrus Van Dreisen Patent . This map is found within "The Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Portfolio E - Map #865. It is bordered on the west by the John Van Driesen Patent and the John Brachan Patent. It is bordered on the north by Klock's Purchase. It is bordered on the south by the Mohawk River, and on the east by the Francis Harrison Patent. Revolutionary Records suggest that Fort House was located in the south-western portion of this patent. The Abraham Van Horne Patent . This 1764 Map of the Van Horne was found in the Maps of the New York Secretary of State, Map #532, in the New York State Office of Land Management in the Corning Office Building of the Empire State Plaza. The map was drawn on an animal hides and is in excellent condition. This map is significant for showing the locations of the homesteads of some 30 occupants of the patent. Located in the upper lefthand corner of the easternmost section of the map is a legend which identifies each resident family with a number corresponding to the number representing their home. Colonial Records and surveys by William Cockburn clearly indicate that this patent was in Colonial Times known as the Canajoharie Patent. The Hermanus Van Slyck/Abraham DePeyster Patent . This Map of the Hermanus Van Slyck-Abraham Depeyster Patent is found within "The Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York Collection #AO273, Portfolio E -Map #872 . This map is significant for showing the locations of 32 homesteads of some 32 occupants of the patent. Located at the bottom of the East-Central portion and the bottom of the Easternmost section of the map is a legend which identifies each resident family with a number corresponding to the number representing their home. The patent is bordered south by the Mohawk River; easterly by the James Alexander or Gouvernor Patent; northerly by the Francis Harrison & Christian Garlock or Stone Arabia Patent. The map is in very good condition. Isaac Vrooman's 1779 Map of Upstate New York . A map of the County of Albany, Tryon, and part of Charlotte made at the request of his Excellency George Washington Esqr General and Commander in Chief of all the land and naval forces of [the] thirteen United States of America. Protracted and laid down from actual surveys which are chiefle preformed by me Isaac Vrooman June 7th Anno 1779. Written on this map is the following explanation: Explanation In the above Map all the Churches are Marked with a Cross on the Steeple The most principle Gentleman's Houses are put in [the] Form of Houses and many others along River Roads are marked with a nought There 0 the number of Families living within the lines of this Map are about eight thousand. The Roads are marked with dotted lines. The out lines of the County of Albany are down with black and Yellow Lines. The South and East Bounds of Tryon County are black and Blue Lines, and the North & West Bounds thereof extends as far as the uttermost extent of New York State Charlotte County is bounded South on the North Bounds of the County of the County of Albany Western part of the East Bounds of the County of Tryon East on the Bounds of Cumberland and extends as far North as the forty fifth Degree of North Lattitude All Rivers and Creeks of any notice are all laid down from Actual Survey exception a few, which are placed in their True Situation and their General Course laid down Rivers Creeks and Churches are laid Down by a larger Scale but Mountains by the Same Scale of the Map . A closeup of the northern portion of the Canajoharie District is available here. NOTE WELL: No evidence of either a Fort Plain or a Fort Rensselaer appears on this map. Fort Plank is the only fortress represented as being within this part of the district as of June 7 th , 1779; however one must also note the differences in the handwriting marking Fort Plank and the handwriting of the cartographer, Isaac Vrooman and the person who has labeled many areas on the map. Vrooman's Map is critical to understanding various events in Upstate New York's History. The map is found in the New York Historical Society Map Collection as Map Number 7562-A. A photographic negative of the original map (20" X 24") is catalogued as Map Number 7562-B. The Peter Waggoner Patent . A map of the Peter Waggoner-Conradt Weiser Patent in the Town of Minden taken from the Rutger Bleeker Papers in the New York State Library of Albany, New York Mss #SC10816-1. The patent is bordered on its northernmost line by the Hartman Windecker Patent; its southern border is formed by the Otsquago Creek; it is bordered on the west by the Jacob Lansing Patent; its eastern border is formed by the Rutger Bleecker Patent of 1730, the Johan Jost Herkimer Patent, & the Otsquago Patent [Rutger Bleecker's Patent of 1729]. During the American Revolution, Frederick Blank and his wife Ottilia (Waggoner, House, Reit), possessed Lot Two of the patent. The Widow Blank then passed possesion of Lot Two to her sons: Joseph House; &, Jacob Wright in 1803 (Montgmery County Deed 13:400). The south-westernmost corner of the patent's Lot 3 is the site of the Geisenbergh Church and its Cemetery which houses the body of Peter Waggoner's grandson, Captain Joseph House. The Hartman Windecker Patent . A map of Windecker Patent in the Town of Minden created in December of 1989 by Herbert Schrader of 2125 Walcot Avenue in Utica, New York. The original patentees were Hartman, Casper Lype, and Conrad Countryman. The patent is bordered on the north, east, and west by the Abraham Van Horne Patent. It is bordered on the south by the Peter Waggoner Patent. Mr. Schrader produced this map from data he personally collected and from land deeds presented to him by Elizabeth Dehn (dec'd), Ken D. Johnson, &: Marilyn J. Cramer. The map is presented here with Mr. Schrader's expressed permission obtained by phone on May 7, 2008. Lot Three of this patent was the site of Fort Walrath, home of Ensign Henry Walrath of Captain Joseph House's Company of the Canajoharie District Regiment of Tryon County Militia, which was destroyed on August 2, 1780. Lot 6 was the site of Fort Gor Countryman, home of First Lieutenant George Countryman of Captain Jacob Diefendorf's Company of the Canajoharie District Regiment of Tryon County Militia, which is believed by some to have renamed Fort Willett after being picketed and fortified in 1781. Lieutenant Karl Wintersmith's Map of the Northern War District. Wintersmith served as an engineer in the Brunswick Grenadiers and is noted to have been ordered to serve in North America in 1776, and is last listed on the Kassel Payrolls as a deserter in the Colony of Virginia in 1779. This map is assumed to have been drawn between 1776, the date that Wintersmith is mustered out to North America and October 19, 1777, when General Frederick Von Riedesel of Hesse-Kassel surrendered his forces to Rebel General Horatio Gates at Saratoga. One should note when viewing this map that a "circled X" demonstrates the site of an existing mill. A fortress is sinified by the standard symbol so common to military maps. As the map was too wide to effectively photograph as one unit, it is presented here in two overlapping sections running from west to east: Karl Wintersmith's Map of the Oneida River Valley from Lake Ontario at Oswego, to the eastern banks of Lake Oneida. Karl Wintersmith's Map of the Uppermost Mohawk Valley & the Upper Portage from the eastern banks of Lake Oneida eastward to the German Flatts. Karl Wintersmith's Map of the Middle Mohawk Valley from just west of the German Flatts eastward to the area just to the east of the Fort Hunter, including the Canajoharie District, Johnstown, and the Lower Schoharie Valley. Karl Wintersmith's Map of the Lower Mohawk Valley & the mid-Hudson River Valley from the area of modern day area of Saint Johnsville eastward to the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains, including the settlements of the Lower Schoharie Valley, the City of Schenectady, The City of Albany, the Rebel fortresses at Stillwater, & the area about Claverack. The bibliographic reference to his map is: The General Frederick Von Riedesel Papers, Staatsarchiv #237N115, folio 11-12, Niedersaechsisches Staatsarchiv Wolfenbuettel, Germany. Wright's 1803 Canajoharie . Benjamin Wright's Survey of the area of Sand Hill and Waldrat's Ferry from the original survey in the Oneida County Historical Society located in Utica, New York. The same map clearly demonstrates that the course of the Otsquago Creek and its mouth were not changed by the construction of the Erie Canal. The bibliographic title of this work is: B Wrights Survey of Mohawk River in 1803 . An essay on the history of Walradt's Ferry is also found here. The Frederick Young Patent. The Frederick Young & Philip Livingston Patents. This map of the Young and Livingston Patents is found within the "Maps of the Commissioners of Forfeitures" in the New York State Archives in Albany, New York, Collection #AO273, Portfolio E, Map #894. The map is in fair condition. These patents were bordered on the south and south-west by the John Lindsey or Cherry Valley Patent; on the south-east by the Frederick Young Patent; & in the north by the Otsquago Creek and the Conrad Countryman Patent; and, on the west by the John McNeile Patent. An earlier map of the patents was drawn in 1767 by Surveyor William Cockburn, and is found within the Manuscripts Collection of the New York State Library in Albany, New York (Mss #XM19890). The Cockburn is map is in very good condition. The Frederick Young Patent is bordered on the north by the William Dick, Jno Lyne, Frederick Morris, & William Cosby Patents (from west to east) Philip Livingston Patent. The southern portion of this patent lies within Schoharie County & is bordered by the Johannis Lawyer Patent and George Croghan Patent of 1770. On the east the patent adjoins the Timothy Bagley and William Correy Patents. On the west it adjoins the Phillip Livingston Patent and the John Lindsey or Cherry Valley Patent. The Theobald Young Patent . This map is located on Page 248 of Volume 7 of New York State Archives Collection #AO453-79. A map showing the relationship of the Theobald Young Patent to the James Henderson's Purchase and the acreages of the Young Patent lakes as drawn by Philip R. Frey is found within the Montgomery County, New York Clerk's Office in map Drawer #14. A map demonstrating the three lots of land granted to Anna Marragrieta Timmerman of Tyenindoke out of pure love and affection with the consent of the entire Castle of Kannajoharie , both Indian men and women on March 12th, 1733/4. It is described as a tract commencing at a kill called Athedaghque, and a farm on the south side of the said kill, and thence upwards along the river to a tree marked with the bear, wolf and turtle, thence northwards from the river into the woods about three English miles, and then eastward, keeping the same distance from the river, to another marked tree, and thence toward the river to the east and of the farm which formed the point of beginning This tract later became a portion of the Snell-Zimmerman Patent of 1752. The original map was found amongst the Lawrence Zimmerman Papers which have been transcribed and published by the Timmerman-Zimmerman-Snell Family Reunion.