property transactions by James French McKown and son William McKown 1870-1930

McKownville Improvement Association
- property transactions of James French McKown and son William McKown 1860-1930

James French McKown was the second son of John McKown, and assisted his father running the family farmlands, and became owner of parts of them in the 1860's. To pay John McKown's debts after his death, some of his retained land was sold, to his eldest son William J. McKown, who lived much of his adult life in Oneida County. James French McKown sold some smaller pieces of his own land through the 1870's, but most of his real property passed on his death to his only son William McKown. William McKown in turn sold small parts of this land through the 1880-1900 interval, but most this remaining McKown property was only sold after his death in 1924.

^a links to deed book and page numbers are to text transcripts or abstracts made from the scanned images of the microfilm documents;
files of these scans are linked to the symbol; image quality is variable.
Note that Albany County deeds before 1874 were transcribed sometime in the earlier part of the 20th century to typescript and the original handwritten versions are
apparently not available. Transcription errors from this process are clearly present in a number of these typescript copies of the pre-1874 documents.

Transactions by James French McKown (second son of John McKown) up to 1876

Deed book, pages^a	property	Grantors	grantee	date	date recorded
166; 179-80a	Ross Farm; 143¼ac	John & Catherine McKown	James F. McKown	1860-04-23	1861-01-07
166; 179-80b	Gore pc1S; 12ac	John & Catherine McKown	James F. McKown	1860-04-23	1861-01-07
205; 361	lot 4; 71ac	John & Catherine McKown	James F. McKown	1860-12-21	1867-01-21
208; 81-2	Gore pcNE; 1ac	Margaret Moak & Robert Moak	James F. McKown	1867-03-22	[1867-04-02]
229; 350-52	lot [5+?]; 93.96ac	John McKown	James F. McKown	1868-04-28	1870-02-17
229; 352-53	house Beaver St	John McKown	James F. McKown	1868-04-28	1870-02-17
229; 354-55	lot 4; 43.6ac	John McKown	James F. McKown	1868-04-28	1870-02-17
229; 356-58	lot pt; 8.2ac	William J. & Lydia McKown	James F. McKown	1868-04-24	1870-02-17
231; 306-7	2ac gore N side tpike^§	James F & Sarah McKown	Andrew Drumm	1870-04-01	1870-04-25
239; 217-22	lot 2; 1101/3ac; gore 2ac	James F. McKown (administrator*)	William J. McKown	1871-01-26	1871-03-23
266; 96-7	5.85ac; 0.25ac Kill road?	James F & Sarah McKown	Mary E Oliver	1873-07-08	1873-08-23
283; 287-8	23ac part of orig lot 4	James F & Sarah McKown	Aaron N Oliver	1874-12-05	1875-09-01
288; 61-2	20ac part of orig lot 4	James F & Sarah McKown	Hiram Carpenter	1874-12-05	1875-12-20
318; 83-5	1.6ac part of orig lot 4?	James F & Sarah McKown	John Bert	1875-05-01	1879-06-12
289; 155-7	23.95ac	James F & Sarah McKown	Caspar Smith	1875-12-10	187x-xx-xx
295; 330-1	59.52ac part of orig lot 5	James F & Sarah McKown	Shubel Kelly	1876-12-09	187x-xx-xx

*John McKown died intestate 1870-02-06; letters of administration granted to James French McKown
§from the estate of Peter Hilton Jr (d. 1845)

Transactions by William McKown 1886-1924

Deed book, pages	property	Grantors	grantee	date	date recorded
374; 31-2	23.95ac	Kasper and Margaret Schmidt	William McKown	1886-04-27	1886-04-28
374; 32-3	1.86ac	William & Lavina McKown	Kasper Schmidt	1886-04-27	1886-04-28
379; 5-6	1 acre gore	William & Catherine L McKown (heirs*)	Aaron Jennings	1886-12-01	1886-12-01
382; 215-6	4ac	William & Lavina McKown	Augustus Ziemm	1887-03-01	1887-03-28
456; 290-1	4ac S side tpike	William & Rachael McKown	Henry & Mary Drumm	1895-04-03	1895-04-06
739; 212	2.4ac	William McKown	Anna & Eva Floy McKown	1921-02-25	1924-11-11

*James French McKown died intestate 1880-02-15; his wife Sarah Ann McKown died intestate 1881-02-25; letters of administration granted to their only son William McKown

Transactions by heirs of William McKown 1925-1930

Deed book, pages	property	Grantors	grantee	date	date recorded
739; 260-1	0.48ac	Executors of William McKown	John H Bloomingdale	1925-02-11	1925-02-24
739; 531-2	113.42ac	Arthur & May Witbeck	Jessie McKown et al	1925-12-31	1926-01-23
774; 180-1	113.42ac	Jesse, Anna, Eva, Alexander & Viola McKown	Mary E Johnston	1926-09-22	1926-09-22
774; 224-9	~9.6ac	Alexander, Eva F, Anna, & Jessie McKown	Charles S Aldrich**	1926-09-08	1926-09-26
774; 348-9	143.25; 3ac	Executors of William McKown	Caroline N & Margaret A Knowles	1927-03-31	1927-03-31
774; 360-5	~9.6ac	Alexander, Viola, Eva, Anna, & Jessie McKown	Herbert W Best^@	1927-04-20	1927-04-20
805; 241-3	1ac quitclm	Jessie, Anna, Eva, Alexander McKown et al^@	McKownville M.E. Church	1928-10-08	1928-10-29

** This transaction appears to have been reverted, probably because payment was not made timely and/or sufficiently. The document also has annexed the text of a contract between William McKown and William J Knowles to purchase the Ross Farm and adjacent land; this became the purchase from the executors of William McKown by Caroline and Margaret Knowles.
@ These documents contain affidavits testifying to the relationships of various descendants of John McKown, and of James F McKown

William McKown property transactions 1797-1843
John McKown property transactions 1810-1870
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