Manuscript map showing a portion of the vast "Great Patent" or "Hardenbergh Patent" and locating the settlement at Station Point at the old border between New York and New Jersey. The grant made to Johannes Hardenbergh in 1708 consisted of approximately two million acres of land situated in Ulster, Greene, Orange, Sullivan and Delaware Counties, New York. Originally drawn by Cadwallader Colden in approximately 1726 when he undertook his survey of quit rents in the province. This appears to be a rough draft executed by Samuel Holland, approximately 1757. Amended in a common ink with the location of some of the families who settled the area as part of their South Sea charter in 1754, as well as names such as Mathew Phenix, Saml. Wool, James Graham, Conelius Ragers, and others.
Land grants--New York (State)--Maps--Early works to 1800 Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)--Maps New York (State)--Maps New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Maps Early maps. (lcgft) Manuscripts (aat)
Source
Kashnor Collection of Early American Maps, 1670-1856 Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Purchased from Museum Book Store, Catalog No. 93, No. 483, 1924. CSmH
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