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  Title

  Papers, 1732-1864

  Author

  Cockburn Family.  

  Pages:

  12

  Item info:

  2 copies available at New York State Library and Manuscripts and Special Collections.
  

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  • Holdings			Change Display
    New York State Library
    	Copy	Material	Location
    974.7 C665 207-1672	1	MICROFILM	MB
    	Note: contains Socialborough Field Book (Cockburn Family Papers, Box 11, Fld. 11 bound with two books on New York State prison legislation.
    Manuscripts and Special Collections
    	Copy	Material	Location
    SC7004	1	MANUSCRIPT	N (nocirc)

• MARC Record

  Papers, 1732-1864
  Cockburn Family.
  

  Control Number:

  (OCoLC)122578338

  Local call number:

  SC7004

  Author:

  Cockburn Family.

  Title:

  Papers, 1732-1864.

  Parallel title:

  Cockburn family land papers,

  Quantity:

  12 boxes (5.25 cu. ft.)

  Quantity:

  1,220 maps : manuscript ; 61 x 104.5 cm. or smaller.

  Arrangement:

  Organized by material form into four series : I. Correspondence. II. Legal and financial. III. Land papers. and IV. Writings. Arranged by county, patent, great lot, township, and date.

  Historical/biog note:

  William Cockburn (1726-1810) from Berwickshire, Scotland, settled in Kingston, Ulster County, New York in the early 1760s and was employed as a surveyor, land agent, and speculator in Ulster County and throughout the state and Vermont. As a teacher and employer he influenced many of New York States' surveyors. He married Catherine Trumpbour (also spelled Tremper) of Palatine German descent. They had five children including James (ca. 1775-1848) and William Jr. (1769-1806) who accompanied their father on surveying expeditions as did his nephew Jacob Trumpbour Jr. John Kiersted Sr. (1786-1862) of Saugerties was a frequent surveyor for the Cockburns and in later years James Cockburn's son Walter A. also participated. William Cockburn is buried in Mount Marion Cemetery, Kingston, New York.

  Review:

  The Cockburn Family land papers are organized into three brief series - correspondence (on family history), legal and financial (miscellaneous documents not readily related to land transactions including accounts, court documents, slave bills of sale, etc.), and a series of miscellaneous writings. Drafts and excerpts of wills and estate matters for various persons are found throughout the collection. The bulk of the collection consists of land papers which include correspondence, field books, indentures, maps, receipts, and surveys. These are arranged by present county, township (according to Burr's atlas of New York State, 1829) or great lot, and date. Ulster County is the county most frequently represented with the Hardenbergh and the Hurley Patents the largest groupings as well as Greene County. Other counties represented span from Jefferson County to the present state of Vermont and from Franklin County down to Westchester County. The patents surveyed range in size from Macombs Purchase and the Van Rensselaer Family Manor to the Nine Partners and individual farms. Major family names include Beekman, Cockburn, Desbrosses, Duane, Hardenbergh, Livingston, Schuyler, Ver Planck and Van Rensselaer as well as lesser known families such as Persen and Tremper. Several of the maps describe the quality of the land and depict roads and houses. There are also folio size maps of the Dutchess, Ulster and Delaware Turnpike. Six maps of the Hardenbergh Patent, Greene, Ulster, and Westchester Counties, New York and Vermont.

  Finding aids:

  Unpublished guide available in repository and online: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc7004.htm

  Personal subject:

  Beekman family.

  Personal subject:

  Cockburn, James, 1775-1848.

  Personal subject:

  Cockburn, William, 1736-1810.

  Personal subject:

  Cockburn, William, 1769-1806.

  Personal subject:

  Desbrosses family.

  Personal subject:

  Duane family.

  Personal subject:

  Hardenbergh family.

  Personal subject:

  Kiersted, John, 1786-1862.

  Personal subject:

  Livingston family.

  Personal subject:

  Tremper family.

  Personal subject:

  Trumpbour family.

  Personal subject:

  Van Rensselaer family.

  Personal subject:

  Verplancke family.

  Subject:

  Land grants--New York (State)

  Subject:

  Land subdivision--New York (State)

  Subject:

  Land titles--New York (State)

  Subject:

  Conveyance. aat

  Geographic terms:

  Delaware County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Dutchess County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Essex County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Greene County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Herkimer County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Oneida County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Orange County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Otsego County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Saratoga County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Schoharie County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Sullivan County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Ulster County (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Vermont Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Crown Point (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Kingston (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Geographic terms:

  Saugerties (N.Y.) Surveys.

  Form/genre terms:

  Accounts. aat

  Form/genre terms:

  Cadastral maps. aat

  Form/genre terms:

  Deeds. aat

  Form/genre terms:

  Field notes. aat

  Form/genre terms:

  Letters. aat

  Form/genre terms:

  Maps. aat

  Form/genre terms:

  Slave bill of sale. aat

  Form/genre terms:

  Wills. aat

  Occupation term:

  Surveying. aat

  Personal author:

  Cockburn, William, 1736-1810.

  Personal author:

  Cockburn, William, 1769-1806.

  Personal author:

  Cockburn, James, 1775-1848..

  Electronic access:

  Finding aid aid: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc7004.htm