Dataset: Holland Land Company Deed Tables
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Early American Studies
Settler Colonialism
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Elana Krischer. “Seneca Conceptions of Land Use and Value: Debates Over Land Sovereignty, 1797-1848.” Journal of the Early Republic 41, no. 3 (Fall 2021). https://www.jstor.org/stable/27105396.
Elana Krischer. “Expansion in the East: Seneca Sovereignty, Quaker Missionaries, and the Great Survey, 1797-1801.” in Inventing Destiny: Exploring the Cultures of US Expansion. Jimmy L. Bryan Jr., Editor, University Press of Kansas, 2019.
Elana Krischer.“‘We Have None to Part With’: Conflict Over Land in Western New York, 1794-1819.” Iroquoia: The Journal of the Conference on Iroquois Research 2, no. 1 (2016).
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This dataset is a transcription of the Deed Tables from the Holland Land Company Deed Books held at the New York State Archives. The Holland Land Company was a consortium of Dutch Bankers who purchased the preemption right to lands west of the Genesee River in New York from land speculator Robert Morris. The Holland Land Company then extinguished Seneca title to much of the land at the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree, surveyed townships and Seneca reservations between 1798 and 1800, and then sold the land to settlers beginning in 1802. The deeds listed in these tables include land sales between 1802 and 1833. Fields include names of purchasers, month of purchase, day of purchase, year of purchase, township, range, number of acres sold, and purchase money. The original records include the number of the deed that links the purchases to corresponding records as well as the individual lot number within each township and range. This data was left out of our transcription. Corresponding digitized maps of the Holland Land Purchase can be found at the New York State Archives website. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/
This dataset is a part of the Magazine of American Datasets (MEAD). To view more of the collection, visit https://repository.upenn.edu/exhibits/orgunit/mead.
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This dataset was created as part of the research for an ongoing digital humanities project mapping western expansion in New York State. This project was partially funded through the Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Summer Scholars Program at Siena College. We have taken care to minimize mistakes, but cannot guarantee it is free from human error. The dataset is offered “as is,” and researchers are encouraged to consult the original records.