McKownville
Improvement Association
- property deeds and transactions of the
McKown family in McKownville 1796-1928
William McKown (1763-1843) began purchasing property in the area of
McKownville and vicinity in 1797, and by the end of his life had
accumulated perhaps as much as 1400 acres locally, and had also
purchased around 700 acres more land, located in Berne, and in
Schoharie and Montgomery Counties.
It can be quite difficult to determine which of his descendants
obtained particular portions of this property, and when and to whom
it was sold or inherited. This is also complicated by confusion of
similarly named individuals living during the mid-19th century, for
instance William J McKown and William McKown, or James French McKown
and James Francis McKown, easy to confuse if the middle name is not
given in full, or omitted entirely. If you wish to see the family
relationships, there's a McKown family
tree and ged file linked on that page that we have compiled to
help you!
So having done the historical digging in the deed books and
microfilms at the Albany County Hall of Records, and also unearthing
wills obtained online, we constructed compilation lists of these
numerous documents with links to files of the scanned or
photographed images, and to text transcriptions in the instances we
have made such from the images.
There are also other individuals listed for the properties of an
area central to McKownville, parcel 1 of the Gore, first partitioned
by Commissioners in 1807; William McKown obtained a generous share
of this area, but others obtained pieces of it. The numerous later
transactions of sale and inheritance can make tracing the older
ownership of properties adjacent to Western Avenue quite
challenging.
For the McKown family:
William McKown property dealings
1795-1835
John McKown property dealings
1810-1870
James French McKown
and son William McKown property transactions 1870-1930
and for the Gore
McKown property transactions
related to the Gore lots 1789-1870
property transactions of lots 1-11 (parcel 1) of the Gore 1807-1921
(in preparation 11/23)
for the Great Western
Turnpike
property records in Albany
County for the First Great Western Turnpike Company
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