Drafted by Peter Stuyvesant, this agreement required settlers to destroy their separate dwellings, re-build them in a concentrated area, and surround it with a "palisades" or log ..
Property loss and business damage claims caused by the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir are captured word-for-word in this, one of over 360 volumes of Ulster County ..
“Long Island's Quaker population formed the New York Manumission Society, the state's first antislavery club, in 1785, and two years later established the African Free School in ..
In June of 1895, Judge Alphonso T. Clearwater had the early Dutch records of Kingston examined by Dingman Versteeg, the official translator of the Holland Society. In ..
From Deed Book AA comes the first deed recorded in English by James Graham, Ulster County Clerk 1684-1689. Land registration was the most important function of the ..
Freeholders were defined by Statute, from the Laws of 1786, as persons possessing real property worth at least 60 pounds, above all mortgages and other encumbrances. Freeholders ..
Wiltwyck was granted a formal charter in 1661, issuing laws and establishing a Justices' Court. Justice continues to be administered in that general vicinity to this very ..
As Clerk of the Courts, the Ulster County Clerk's Office houses hundreds of cubic feet of court records. Being one of the original counties, there are records ..
Pension Papers from the Court of Common Pleas “Entitlement to pensions based on service-connected disabilities for Revolutionary War veterans and for widows and orphans of officers killed ..
Titled "An Agreement made between Richard Nicolls Esq. Governor under his Royal Highness the Duke of Yorke and the Sachems and People called the Sopes Indyans", this ..
This page, dated February 10, 1711, is one of the earliest records of the Board of Supervisors of Ulster County and one of the earliest known Supervisors' ..
From the Court of Common Pleas is this Writ of Capius, shown here front and back ordering Sheriff Egbert Dumond to arrest Henry Parselour, who has been ..
