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1770 circa - early map of Morris Patent from NYS Archives and Cathcart Map of Hillington Patent
Note in the archive was:
Map of Morris Patent, between the Susquehanna and Unadilla.
Map #33
NYSA_A0273-78_33
Click on links below to view map as either TIFF or PNG -- Not all image software will open TIFF files so if in doubt use the PNG.
Found on page 2 of results from this link after searching on
MORRIS
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Search/Index/search/
Map of Hillington Patent by Andrew Cathcart
Some lands were given to soldiers as payment for service during the revolutionary war -- the land was awarded by lottery -- draving lot numbers from a box -- here's a description of the process.
https://www.cnyhistory.org/2016/07/revolutionary-war-military-tract/#:~:....
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1770-Morris-Patent-from-NYS-archives-NYSA_A0273-78_33_representation_41284_original.png | 33.3 MB |
NYSA_A0273-78_33_representation_41284_original.tiff | 59.57 MB |
Morris-Patent-map.jpg | 248.58 KB |
Hillington-Patent-by-And-Cathcart.jpg | 1.14 MB |