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	Holland Land Office Museum_History
		In 1793, Morris sold the land, with the largest parcel being sold to the Holland Land Company, which was comprised of six banking houses of Amsterdam.
		Land sold for about $2.00 per acre and partial payment could be made by working on road or mill construction.
		Joseph Ellicott, and his land office, were an integral cog in the economic machine of the Holland Land Company and were responsible for the settlement of roughly 3.5 million acres of land.
	www.hollandlandoffice.com /history.htm (903 words)

	Holland Land Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Holland Land Company was a purchaser of the western two-thirds of the western New York land tract known as the Phelps and Gorham Purchase.
		The Holland Land Company was actually an unincorporated syndicate of 13 Dutch investors in Amsterdam, that originally placed funds in the hands of certain trustees in America for the purpose of investing in land in central and western New York State and western Pennsylvania.
		Representatives of the Holland Land Company, of Robert Morris, of the Indians, along with a commissioner for the United States, gathered at Big Tree on the Genesee River in August, 1797 and negotiations began.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holland_Land_Company (885 words)

	Holland Purchase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The land was bought by Holland Land Company was formed in 1796 by Wilheim Willink and a group of fellow Dutch bankers from Robert Morris.
		A sales office for the Holland Land Company was opened in 1801 by surveyor and agent Joseph Ellicott in Batavia where land was sold until 1846 when the company was dissolved.
		In 1802, the entire Holland Purchase, as well as the 500,000 acre (2,000 km²) Morris Reserve immediately to the east, was split off from Ontario County and constituted Genesee County.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Holland_Purchase (327 words)

	Holland Land Company on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		HOLLAND LAND COMPANY [Holland Land Company] Dutch enterprise active in the settlement of much of W New York and some of NW Pennsylvania.
		Its main land office was opened (1801) in Batavia, N.Y. About 1846 the affairs of the company in the United States were liquidated.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/HollandL1.asp (438 words)

	Inventaris Archief van de Holland Land Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The landed property of the Holland Land Company was enlarged in the course of 1796 with a tract of 15,000 acres in the Genesee lands.
		After the Holland Land Company was formed from the Club of Six in 1795, the correspondence was handled by the firm of Van Eeghen, which also did this for the two negotiations from 1797 onwards.
		That the Holland Land Company that gives its name to the archives takes up no more than one heading in the section 'Archives of the boards of directors in Amsterdam' is due to the fact that representatives in America were employed by several people at the same time.
	gemeentearchief.amsterdam.nl /archieven/oi/inventaris/333.html (15269 words)

	The Pioneer History of Orleans County, NY, Ch. 4, The Holland Purchase
		Joseph Ellicott was engaged as principal surveyor for the Holland Land Company, in July, 1797.
		The Land Office was first established on the Purchase at Pine Grove, Clarence Hollow, in Erie county; but upon the organization of Genesee county, in 1802, the office was transferred to Batavia, where it remained until the affairs of the company were finally closed up in the year 1835.
		The Company generally dealt very leniently with its debtors, frequently renewing their "Articles" when they had run out without payments; and sometimes abating interest accrued and unpaid, or throwing off a part of the sum originally agreed to be paid, when the bargain had proved a hard one for any reason to the debtor.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/state/orl/ch4.html (3855 words)

	Holland Land Company, Plat of Village Lots (City of Cazenovia) 1794
		John Lincklaen's greatest vision for the 120,000 acre Holland Land Company Purchase in Central New York was a planned community on the shore of Cazenovia Lake.
		In 1792 Lincklaen had investigated the region and found the land at the foot of the lake to be "superb." Upon this favorable report he and the Company proprietors immediately began making plans for a City in the Wilderness.
		Since the planned village site lay at the very northern border of the Holland Land Company purchase it was necessary for Lincklaen to acquired a piece of the adjoining New Petersburg Tract from Peter Smith so the village would not be artifically restricted to the small area within the Company domain.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nyccazen/HLCo/Land/Tracts/PlatV.html (1154 words)

	Holland Land Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The lands purchased by Robert Morris in western New York were, in turn, purchased for a group of wealthy Dutch merchants and financiers of Amsterdam, Holland, by their friends in America.
		The Hollanders could not own the land In their own names since they were aliens; however, this was changed in 1798 and they could hold the land..
		The Indians reserved several tracts of land in the Holland purchase for themselves.
	ah.bfn.org /h/ell/hol.html (707 words)

	ED YOUNG'S TRUE VALUE ~A History of the Town of Amherst NY Chapter 2~
		At the first transfer by the trustees of the land company, the entire tract, except for 300,000 acres, was conveyed to William Willink, Nicholas Van Straphorst, Pieter Van Eeghan, Hendrick Vallenhoven and Rutger Van Schimmelpennick.
		In 1798 or 1799, two men, both Holland Land Company surveyors, traveled along the trail from the east and stopped at the plunging waterfall of Eleven Mile Creek which later on took the name of Ellicott, one of the two men.
		In his report to the Holland Land Company, Joseph Ellicott stated that, since the title of the property has been disputed, he felt that it would be policy to sell it to his brother Benjamin, convincing the public of the right of the company's title.
	www.edyoungs.com /events/toa_book_chapter2.php (1516 words)

	Akron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The first land in the Town of Alden which had been surveyed by the Holland Land Company was sold to Jones Van Wey in 1806; however, there was no settlement of any size until several years later.
		The Holland Land Company had purchased the land from the Genesee River westward and south to the Pennsylvania border.
		The Indians who possessed the remaining land in Western New York had reserved it for their own use sold 7,000 acres of land to the Ogden Land Company in August 1826.
	freenet.buffalo.edu /bah/h/newstead/akron.html (834 words)

	Joseph Ellicott
		Part of the purchase agreement between the Holland Land Company and Robert Morris required the surveying of the land to be conveyed.
		The Holland Land Company was pleased with the choice of Joseph Ellicott as since 1794 he had been employed by them to survey parcels out of the 1.5 million acres of land they had purchased in western Penssylvania.
		Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company contributed funds and material to relieve the influx of refugees in Batavia.
	www.landmark-niagara.org /bac/ell (3377 words)

	Holland Land Company Resources
		Holland Land Company records and documents from the Municipal Archives of Amsterdam.
		Holland Land Company and related records in Reed Library (pertaining mostly to Cattaraugus County) Collection consists of 23 microfilm rolls.
		Holland Land Company records and documents from the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.
	www.hlc.wny.org (440 words)

	Red Jacket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Because this was a foreign company not permitted to own land in the state, a dummy holding corporation was created until 1798, when the state of New York changed the law to accommodate the Dutch land speculators.
		Opposed equally as much to Christianity as he was to questionable land deals with the whites, Red Jacket, in his mid-fifties during the War of 1812, was the leader of the pagan faction throughout the first three decades of the century.
		In fact, as recently as 1819 Ogden land agents had come close to negotiating a deal with the Senecas that would have exchanged all of their lands in New York State for some cash and a new home in Green Bay in the Wisconsin Territory.
	ah.bfn.org /h/redj (2525 words)

	History: Lorenzo State Historic Site, Cazenovia NY
		By 1803 the prospering land agent began to envision a home situated on a low rise at the south end of the Cazenovia Lake with expansive, unobstructed views to the north.
		In 1816, the post-war economy was booming, land values were high and the Holland Land Company decided it was time to get out of the retail land business.
		Jane was born in 1793 to John and Hannah Evans Strawbridge of Philadelphia and had a sizable dowry in the form of land in Pennsylvania.
	www.lorenzony.org /history.php?bio=3 (1287 words)

	NYNY 1800-1803
		Batavia's Holland Land Company surveyor Joseph Ellicott completes the two-and-a half-year survey of their holdings, at a total cost of $70,291.69.
		Lawyer and philanthropist Charles Butler is born in Kinderhook Landing to Medad and Hannah (Tylee) Butler.
		Holland Land Company field agent Joseph Ellicott replaces his log field office with a frame structure.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/NYNY1800.html (3876 words)

	Carte des Terrains au nord de la Riviere Mohac
		One of the most important of the land developers was the Holland Land Company, which was funded by a group of investors in Amsterdam.
		The Holland Land Company was responsible for the stablishment of most of the initial European settlements west of the Genesee River.
		This map of an area north of the Mohawk River is from the papers of the Holland Land Company.
	www.sunysb.edu /libmap/mohac.htm (380 words)

	Holland Land Company, Land Records of the Cazenovia Establishment, 1793-1816
		Before the land could be sold it needed to be divided into farm lots for the settlers.
		John Lincklaen, agent for the Cazenovia Establishment, was forced to purchase all the remaining Cazenovia lands and the outstanding debts from the HLCo in 1817.
		Map of the Holland Land Company Tracts in Madison and Chenango Counties
	www.rootsweb.com /~nyccazen/HLCo/Land (1152 words)

	Buffalo.com - HomeFinderExtra.com; Buying and Selling Tools and Info.
		Since they could not own land at the time and there were outstanding issues with a number of Indian leaders, transfers of land could not occur until the New York State legislature changed the law in 1798.
		At that time, Wilhem Willink, one of the investors in the Holland Land Company and a managing partner, hoped to profit by buying a large tract of land in the western part of New York State and northern Pennsylvania and then reselling it to settlers.
		The names of the investors in the Holland Land Company were formerly attached to locations in the area, but have since been replaced.
	www.buffalo.com /homefinderextra/citylivingstory.asp?R_ID=374 (704 words)

	A Brief History of the Town of Amherst - Amherst Museum
		In 1801, Joseph Ellicott, who worked for this company, was sent to survey the land so an accurate map could be used to sell the land to settlers.
		The Holland Land Company offered several lots, about ten miles apart along the road to Buffalo, to "any proper man who would build and keep open taverns" which could serve as inns and stopping points for the settlers who had to travel slowly overland with loaded wagons and ox-carts.
		This house, later known as the Scott-Evans House, is believed to be the first house in Erie County, and served as a tavern and inn as well as the local Holland Land Company office.
	www.amherstmuseum.org /history.htm (2026 words)

	NYNY 1810-1814
		Holland Land Company general agent Paoli Busti writes from Philadelphia to company land agent Joseph Ellicott in Batavia recounting a conversation with a St. Lawrence merchant named Parish who believes that western New York goods should be shipped via the St. Lawrence.
		The Tonquin sails from New York for the mouth of the Columbia River, with the nucleus of the Pacific Fur Company.
		Holland Land Company agent Joseph Ellicott writes from Batavia to his boss Paolo Busti in Philadelphia, reporting on his meeting in Albany with the canal commissioners, in which they attempted to find out just how much land the Holland group would be willing to donate for such a waterway.
	www.home.eznet.net /~dminor/NYNY1810.html (5472 words)

	Ogden family Papers
		Their company, the Ogden Land Company, purchased huge tracts of land from Indians of the Six Nations and resold it to whites at an enormous profit.
		Through their position as counsel to the Holland Land Company, David Aaron Ogden and Thomas Ludlow Ogden influenced the settlement of western New York, the construction of the Erie Canal, the determination of property law in New York, the political competition between the Bucktails and the Clintonians, and the financing of land development.
		The Holland Land Company (HLC) material includes the extensive correspondence between the Ogdens and Paul Busti, general agent for the HLC as well as the legal files from cases in which the company's disputes were adjudicated.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/NP/OgdenF.html (1229 words)

	History
		The territory encompassed by Erie County was part of the Holland Land Purchase.
		Morris, a financier of the American Revolution, purchased some 3,000,000 acres of land in Western New York in 1791, but two years later sold most of the acreage (the western-most portion) to a group of merchants in Holland, who consolidated as the Holland Land Company.
		It was not until the very end of the eighteenth century that the Holland Land Company obtained rights to the lands from the Iroquois and began surveying the territory and selling lots.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/county/erie/history.htm (1765 words)

	Map of the Western Part of the State of New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Original map is in Holland Land Company papers in the Municipal Archives of Amsterdam.
		By this time the land was largely divided up into townships by the Holland Land Company, and several new counties had been established.
		William Chazanof, Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company.
	www.sunysb.edu /libmap/westny.htm (262 words)

	Historical Area Markers in New York State - Inventory Page Five
		The Holland Land Company was organized by six banking firms in the Netherlands to purchase the unsettled land of western New York State.
		From the Holland Purchase, have been formed four counties and parts of four others, comprising 129 rural and suburban towns and 11 cities, which in 1960 had a population of more than 1,600,000.
		Buffalo, at the Lake Erie end of the Niagara River, was opened to settlement by the Holland Land Company in 1803-04.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /services/largemarkers/inventoryfive.html (2472 words)

	The Holland Land Purchase of 1792- Buffalo, NY
		The State of Massachusetts sold the released land in five tracts to Robert Morris, of Philadelphia.
		"The tract, or rather tracts, of land which the Legislature confirmed to the interpreters, in accordance with the wishes of the Senecas, have borne the names of Jones and Parrish from that day to this.
		The irregular extension of the city limits northwesterly from the Jones tract, is bounded by a continuation of the northwest line of Riverside Park, to an intersection of the easterly line of the Mile Strip.
	www.buffalonian.com /history/articles/<1800/hollandpurch.html (1039 words)

	Official Lockport, NY Government & Tourism Information ~ Erie Canal Locks & Flight of Five
		A group of Albany land speculators bought 100,000 acres of land from the Holland Land Company in 1827.
		A deed of land was given to the Quakers at Lincoln and Pine for a burial ground in 1845.
		In 1856 the Lockport Hydraulic Company was formed in 1857 Governor Washington Hunt and Senator March acquired the Albany Land Company and organized the Hydraulic Power Company.
	www.elockport.com /lockport_history.html (5242 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Joseph Ellicott was hired to head the Holland Land Company and he planned the Village of New Amsterdam--one day to become Buffalo.
		His land was between the Granger farm (at Oakwood), the Russell farm (at Russell Avenue), Main Street, and Elmwood Avenue, and included the present meadow in Delaware Park.
		Charmed by Wright, Martin convinced the owner of the Larkin Company to have Wright design a state of the art office building for the company on Seneca Street in Buffalo.
	www.parksidebuffalo.org /history.html (3304 words)

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