All Items 1 Collection 1 Archives & Special Collections 1 Contributor 1 Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 1 Topic 1 Archives 1 Part Of 1 Jeffery Amherst Collection 1 Genre 1 Land grants 1 Grant of land to Jeffery Amherst from the Colony of New York, 1774 January 8 Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 Grant of land to Jeffery Amherst from the Colony of New York, dated January 8, 1774. A total of twenty-two thousand, five hundred and forty acres was bestowed upon Amherst. The boundaries of the land tract were set by a particular birch tree noted in the land grant. Grant of land to Jeffery Amherst from the Colony of New York, 1774 January 8
