Indenture, dated July 16th, 1751, documenting the sale of 200 acres of the Crommelin Tract of the Wawayanda Patent by John Beers to one James Ensign for the sum of 150 pounds current money. This is part of the acreage on which the town and village...
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Newspaper clipping with stories of the first one hundred years of the Chester Presbyterian Church and its ministers. Clipping also includes other short unrelated articles of local interest.
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This document inscribed with a quill pen on parchment, records the sale of the 3066 acre Gray Court Plantation with certain personal property included in the sale. An attached paper memorandum of the chattels referred to in the primary document,...
These proceedings to determine boundaries of the Wawayanda and Cheesecocks Patents held in 1785 in the Yelverton Barn were transcribed from the records of the County Clerk's office in Goshen.
This indenture documents the sale from the Estate of Dr. Samuel Staats of one sixth of his one thirteenth share of the Wawayanda Patent in Orange County.
Map showing subdivision of Daniel Crommelin's former holdings within the Wawayanda Patent in central Orange County. These parcels now in the Towns of Blooming Grove and Chester.
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Newspaper clipping reporting on a Historical Society of Middletown and Wallkill Precinct meeting featuring Frank Durland’s paper on the importance of Chester in history. Apparently, this was clipped from Dr. Wesley Wait's copy of the newspaper.
This document shows the calculation of Dr. Samuel Staats’ share of ownership in the Wawayanda Patent by reason of winning a lawsuit in 1713, establishing his prior claim and adding him as the thirteenth owner.
