SCHOHARIE VALLEY PATENT MAPS SKETCHES

If you, the viewer, should wish to study these maps and/or images in more detail, it is strongly recommended that you first download the map or image by right clicking somewhere on the image and then clicking on the "save target as" link. Once you have downloaded the map or image to your hard drive, you may use a image viewer such as "IRFANVIEW" (a very safe freeware program) to digitally zoom in on it with only minor distortion of details. One should also be aware that these maps images are, by intention, EXTREMELY LARGE so that you may study the minute details of each map after they opened with a graphics viewer. PLEASE BE PATIENT! They will load slowly! One should also note that whenever possible, the map, as it is viewed on a screen, has been orientated so that the top of the map is pointing in a roughly north direction. 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. The maps are arranged in alphabetical order according to either the surname of the cartographer or the surname portion of a patent's name. As some of these maps are not 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 special debt of gratitude is owed to Mister Don Teeple of Malone, New York who in part funded the digitalization of these maps. A map produced circa 1790 by New York State General Surveyor Simeon De Witt, Esquire demonstrating the various land patent grants of the Lower Schoharie Valley and south-eastern Tryon County. This map is intended to assist in orientating the user of the patent maps listed on this web-site as to their approximate location in relation to the Mohawk River, the Schoharie Creek, and the Charlotte River. Note: This link will open in a seperate browser page so that the viewer refer back and forth to it while studying other maps. A line drawn between the Manor Of Rensselaerwyck and the Schoharie Valley Patents by James Cockburn in 1803 found in the John M. Scott Patent Papers, Manuscript Collection #SC14781 of the New York State Library in Albany, New York. A Map of the 1755 Thomas Eckerson Patent found in the John M. Scott Patent Papers, Manuscript Collection #SC14781 of the New York State Library in Albany, New York. A Map of the 1770 John M. Scott Patent found in the John M. Scott Patent Papers, Manuscript Collection #SC14781 of the New York State Library in Albany, New York. A Map of the Third Tract of the John M. Scott Patent found in the John M. Scott Patent Papers, Manuscript Collection #SC14781 of the New York State Library in Albany, New York. A Traverse of Schohary Kill from Herona Sidney['s] of Schohary to NW Corner of Alexr Cosbys Tract with the Tracts Adjacent Surveyed AD 1768 Pr found in Box 5 Folder 36 of the Cockburn Family Papers, New York State Library Manuscript Collection #SC7004 in Albany, New York.