The Holland Land Purchase And Holland Land Company Records
The Holland Land Purchase andHolland Land Company RecordsGenealogical Research inWestern New York State
Holland Land Company Timeline 1792-17931798-180018011812183719841991, 1996 Holland Land PurchaseSurvey of Holland Land PurchaseLand sales beginWar disrupts land salesHLC withdraws from HLPAll HLC records microfilmedLand records extracted (2 vol.)
Theophilius Cazenove 1740-1811 Born Amsterdam,Holland, died Paris,France. General agent forHLC 1788-1799. Based in Philadelphia Bought land in PA,NJ, CN and NY.Courtesy Holland Land Company Museum,Batavia, NY
Holland Land Purchase 3.3 million acreswest of GeneseeRiver. Purchased fromRobert Morris. Five deeds1792-1793.
Paul Busti 1749-1824 Born Italy, diedPhiladelphia. Succeeded Cazenoveas general agent in1799. Appointed JosephEllicott as local agentin Batavia, NY.
Joseph Ellicott 1760-1826 Born Bucks Co., PAdied NYC. Trained as surveyor bybrother Andrew whosurveyed Wash. DC.
Survey of Holland Land Purchase March 1798 - October 1800; workedcontinuously, living out of doors. Joseph Ellicott and crew of 150 men. Total cost about 17,000. Used transit method which requires line-ofsight measurements (clear cut swaths). Slow, labor intensive, but ACCURATE.
Ideal Townships and Ranges A grid of north-south and east-west lines. Range strip of land 6 miles wide runningnorth-south. Township strip of land 6 miles widerunning east-west. Each resulting town is a 6-mile square or36 square miles.
Real Townships and Ranges Straight lines were not always practical. Purchase also contained Indian Reservations,other reserved lands. Sometimes rivers were used as boundaries. Not all towns were a six-mile square. Range 1 on eastern border, Range 15 onwestern border. Township 1 at PA border. Township 16along Lake Ontario. Township/range location used by HLC, notnecessarily a political boundary of NYS.
Connection between twp/range (HLC) andtowns (NYS) in Orleans Co. Twp/RangeTown14/1&2Barre14/3&4Shelby15/1Barre, Gaines15/2Barre, Ridgeway, Gaines15/3&4Ridgeway16/1&2Carleton16/3&4Yates
Creation of HLC Records Correspondence between general agent inPhiladelphia and directors in Amsterdam. Surveyors’ reports, legal papers, maps. Annual reports of all local agents detailing name,location of land relative to grid of ranges andtownships, amount of payment, etc. All local records returned to bankers inAmsterdam in 1859; transferred to AmsterdamMunicipal Archives in 1964; microfilmed in 1984(202 rolls of microfilm).
Records which may beusefulnot useful Land records Maps showinglocation of lots Accounts and reportsof the agent in Batavia Maps of towns andvillages Minutes of meetingsof the directors Powers of attorney toPaul Busti Legal advice relatingto responsibilities oftrustees
Access to HLC Records Entire microfilm collection is available at––––Reed Library at SUNY Fredonia,NYS library Albany,Family History Library Salt Lake City,The Family History Center nearest to you. Land Tables (of interest to genealogists)take up 3 full reels and 2 partial reels. Extracted by Karen Livsey.
How to Use This Book Look up the surname in the index. Look up the entry/entries in the book. Entry lists township and range number; usetable to locate current town. Entry lists inventory number and page;use table to locate microfilm number
Example: Nehemiah SayerLot 2, STR 060501DateTransactionInv.#-page21 Jun 03o [originalcontract issues]s [subsequenttransactions]sss484-001621 Sep 0426 Jun 061 Feb 134 May 13484-0002484-0038490-0033491-0032
Where is Nehemiah’s land? From the entriesX– STR 060501– Township 5– Range 1 From table in book– twp.5, range 1 is– town of Caneadea,Allegany County
Where are the transactions?Use Inventory Numbers 484, 490, 21814 FHL Film1804-06 1,414,9831,414,9841,414,984
Second ExampleSeth and Samuel AbbottX Seth and SamuelAbbott listed intownship 9, range 7. Today this containstowns of Boston andHamburg in ErieCounty, formerlyNiagara County (until1821).
Seth Abbott Lots 69, 70DateTransaction Ref-page01 Aug 07 o485-004601 Dec 09 s487-005411 Feb 13 s490-005415 Mar 13 s491-00528 Mar 14s492-006315 Jan 15s493-012019 Dec 16 s494-0082
Samuel Abbott Lot 62Date01 Aug 0712 Oct 0804 Aug 12TransactionossRef-page485-0046486-0026490-005604 Feb 13s490-0056
1820 Federal Census, Niagara Co., NY
Company Difficulties War of 1812Delinquent paymentsDepression of 1819Slow salesUnfavorable tax laws passed 1833Bad press
Company Response 1827: Refinance contracts rather thanforeclose. 1828: Sell land in Chautauqua Co. toU.S. speculators. 1834: Sell some mortgages to U.S.insurance companies. 1835: Sell lands in Genesee,Chautauqua, Erie Co.
End Game 6 Feb 1836: Land office in Mayville,Chautauqua Co. destroyed. 1837 company business in western NYceased. 1859 papers in general office inPhiladelphia returned to bank office inAmsterdam.
Survey of Holland Land Purchase March 1798 - October 1800; worked continuously, living out of doors. Joseph Ellicott and crew of 150 men. Total cost about 17,000. Used transit method which requires line-of-sight measurements (clear cut swaths). Slow, labor intensive, but ACCURATE.
New Holland T4020-T4050 New Holland T4030F-T4050F New Holland T4030V-T4050V New Holland T4.75-T4.100 New Holland T5040-T5070 New Holland TD5050 New Holland T6010-T6090 New Holland T7.170-T7.270 New Holland TT45A-TT75A New Holland TN55-TN75 New Holland TN60A-TN95A New Holland TN55D-TN75D New Holland TN60DA-TN95DA
New Holland T4020-T4050 New Holland T4030F-T4050F New Holland T4030V-T4050V New Holland T4.75-T4.100 New Holland T5040-T5070 New Holland TD5050 New Holland T6010-T6090 New Holland T7.170-T7.270 New Holland TT45A-TT75A New Holland TN55-TN75 New Holland TN60A-TN95A New Holland TN55D-TN75D New Holland TN60DA-TN95DA
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