PRICES OF LAND IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.
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townships surveyed by the surveyor general, pursuant to an act passed the 25th day of February,1789, at the rate of three shillings and six pence per acre; the one sixth part of the purchase moneyto be paid on the 1st day of October next, and the residue in two equal payments, one on thefirst of January, 1792, and the other on the 1st of January 1793, being read and duly considered.
(Accepted) Acres 25,000 ,£4,375 0 0
The application of John and Nicholas I. Roosevelt, for the purchase of the following tract ofland was read, and is in the words following, to wit:
“ To the honorable the Commissioners of the land office of the State of New York .
“ Gentlemen,—Instead of our former proposals for the purchase of the following tract of land,we beg leave to substitute the following to wit: ‘We propose to purchase the unappropriated landscomprised within the following boundaries, to wit: All that certain tract of vacant land, boundednortherly by the tract lately purchased by Alexander Macomb , easterly by Oothoudt’s patent andCanada creek, southerly by the Wood creek, the Oneida lake and the Onondaga river, and westerlyby the said Onondaga river and lake Ontario ; and also the Islands belonging to the State in frontof the said lands, upon the following conditions, to wit, at the rate of three shillings and onepenny ’for each acre ; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid, with lawful interest, in sixmonths from the date of the contract, and the remainder in two equal instalments, one instalment inone year, and the other in two years from the aforesaid date. When the first yearly instalment ispaid, then a patent shall issue for one half of the land to be laid out in a square as nearly as possi-ble, on such end of the tract as the commissioners shall think proper; and when the second yearlyinstalment is paid, then a patent shall issue for the right of the said tract: But if we think properto pay the purchase money before the times above specified, then patents to issue for the same,and a discount of four per cent, per annum to be allowed for the time of payment so anticipated.u Jno & Nicholas I. Roosevelt. Acres 500,000 £77,083 6 8
“ P. S. Out of the above described lands we consent to except the lands and fisheries reservedby the deeds of cession from Oneida and Cayuga Indians to the State, and the lands at the fallscalled Oswego Falls, on the Onondaga river, and the lands at Oswego on the north-easterly sideof the said river, where the same falls into lake Ontario , which by any former laws of the Statewere inhibited from being granted; and also such locations as have been already made : On anyof the said lands should the above proposals be acceded to, we expect that an allowance will bemade for all lakes whose area exceeds one thousand acres.
(Accepted) Jno & Nicholas I. Roosevelt.”
The application of John M’Kesson, for the purchase of four thousand eight hundred acres ofland, situate in the county of Herkemer, and bounded easterly by the former line of property, estab-lished in the year 1768, being the west bounds of Coxburgh, and by lands granted to John I. Bleecker,northerly by lands granted to John Francis Perache, westerly by the easterly line of reservationof the Oneida Indians, and southerly by the land granted to the said John I. Bleecker and thelands granted to James Deane, at the rate of three shillings and six pence per acre ; one sixthpart of the purchase money to be paid or secured agreeable to the advertisement of this Board, andthe residue in one year from the 14th of July last; and if the whole money be paid before that day, thenthe patent to issue for the said land ; being read and duly considered,
(Accepted) Acres 3800 £665 0 0
The application of James Watson for the purchase of all the unlocated part of the following tractof land, to wit: Beginning at the south east corner of Ryckman’s reservation on the Seneca lake,and running thence southerly along the shores of the said lake to the south end of the same ; from