The Turner Patent

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Salem is a town in eastern Washington County, New York. Salem was first settled in 1761 by Joshua Conkey and James Turner who as soldiers in the French and Indian War, passed through the territory. In 1764, Alexander and James Turner acquired a patent which was soon divided up between the New Englanders from Pelham Mass. and a group of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians led by Dr Thomas Clark from Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland. The Charlotte County and White Creek militia used Salem as its base in 1776. The 123rd Volunteer Regiment was recruited from Salem during the Civil War. A person of note of the town of Salem is Asa Fitch - Noted entomologist; born, educated, and died in Salem.

Example: 100a, lot 10 = 100 Acres, Lot 10

Alexander Turner

Identified Turner Patent Possessors, Names, Acres, Lot Numbers(s) are:

• Abner Stone, 88a, lot 205
• Abraham Turner, 150a, lot 10
• Alexander Gantt, 150a, lots 82, 84, 88
• Alexander McNees, 88a, lot 19
• Alexander Simson, 140a, lot 11
• Alexander Steawrt, 88a, lot 47
• Alexander Turner, 100a, lots 22, 93
• Alexander Turner, Junr., 88a, lot 50
• Alexander Weight, 150a, lot 27
• Allen Hunsden, 88a, lot not listed
• Andrew Lytle (Lyttle), 90a, lot 191
• Andrew Robinson, 88a, lot 176
• Bartholomew Bartlet, 88a, lot 290
• Benjamin Cleveland & Palmer Cleveland, 300a, lots 136, 208
• Calvin Gault, 88a, lot 16
• Daniel Mattison, 88a, lot 58
• Daniel McNit, 88a, lot 73
• David Eager, 60a, lot 60
• David Harrah (Hannah?), 88a, lot 30
• David Mathews, 104a, lots 44, 60
• David McCracken, 88a, lot 145
• David McIlma, 88a, lot 141
• David Scot, 150a, lots 102, 109
• David Web, 88a, lot 258
• Ebenezer Getty, 88a, lot 170
• Ebenezer Rusal, 150a, lot 124
• Edward Long, 100a, lots 40, 164
• Edward Savage, 100a, lots 15, 100
• Elisha Fitch, 88a, lot 219
• Elizabeth Boyd, 150a, lot 256
• George Crookshank, 88a, lot 108
• George Gunn, 88a, lot 160
• Hamilton McCollister, 150a, lot 190
• Hezekiah Moredock, 88a, lot 101
• Hugh Moncreif, 88a, lot 28
• Hugh Moore, 88a, lot 278
• Isaac Lindsey, 60a, lot 37
• James Armstrong, 88a, lot 129
• James Craig, 88a, lot 204
• James Crozet, 88a, lot 80
• James Gault, 88a, lot 224
• James Henderson, 150a, lot 152
• James McFarland, 88a, lot 84
• James Moore, 150a, lots 276, 652[??]
• James Morr, Senr., 88a, lot 279
• James Ramage, 150a, lot 272, 273
• James Rogers, 88a, lot 160
• James Rowan, 150a, lots 138, 141
• James Steawrt (sic), 88a, lot 95
• James Stephenson, 88a, lot 167
• James Thomson, 96a, lot 75
• Jean Gibson, 88a, lot 31
• Jennet Thomas, 150a, lots 12, 159, 16, 920[??]
• John Armstrong, Thomas Armstrong, 150a, lots 42, 131
• John Beatty, 150a, lots 146, 220, 221
• John Beatty, Junr., 88a, lots 156, 157
• John Blakeney, 150a, lots 226, 250
• John Chamborn, 146a, lot 24
• John Conner, 50a, lot 295
• John Duncan, 88a, lot 227
• John Gray & Nathaniel Gray, 200a, lots 147, 148
• John Gray, Junr., 90a, lot 89
• John Harsha, 88a, lot 69
• John Henry, 88a, lot 86
• John Livingston, 88a, lot 179
• John Lyon, 88a, lot 98
• John Lytle (Littel), 113a, lot 92
• John McCarter & Samuel McCarter, 150a, lot 112
• John McCrea, 88a, lot 158
• John McMikel, 88a, lot 59
• John McMillan, lot 297
• John Rowan, Esq., 88a, lot 189
• John Rowan, Junr., 88a, lot 194
• John Steet, 150a, lot 6[??]
• John Tinten Gault, 88a, lot 111
• John Williams, 150a, lot 77, 161, 209
• Joseph Bartlet, 88a, lot 274
• Joseph McCracken, 150a, lot 135
• Joseph McCracken, Junr., 88a, lot 53
• Joseph Neilson, 150a, lot 104
• Joseph Slarah, 88a, lot 48
• Joseph Tomb, 150a, lot 57
• Joseph Willson, 88a, lot 178
• Joshua Conkey, 100a, lots 63, 153
• Leonard Web, 150a, lot 235
• Margaret Savage, 150a, lots 6, 18, 99
• Mathew McCloskey, Thomas McCloskey, 100a, lots 35, 38, and Andrew McCloskey, 88a, lot 34
• Moses Lamon, 88a, lot 61
• Moses Martin & Aaron Martin, 300a, lot 12
• Nathan Willson, 88a, lots 135, 145
• Nathaniel and Abner Carswell, 300a, lots 45, 51, 52
• Patrick Willson & Nathan Wilson, 200a, lots 171, 177
• Peter McDougal, 88a, lot 220
• Reubin Turner, 88a, lot 49
• Richard Hoy, 64a, lot 48
• Robert Getty, 88a, lot 32
• Robert Gilmore, 88a, lot 83
• Robert Mathews, 88a, lot 32
• Robert Orr, 88a, lot 127
• Robert Steawrt, 88a, lot 26
• Robt. Landon, 150a, lot 158
• Robt. McMurry, 88a, lot 230
• Saml. & Nathan Hopkins, 200a, lots 135, 137
• Samuel Covenhoven, 88a, lot 193
• Samuel Gilles, 88a, lot 40
• Samuel McCracken, 88a, lot 214
• Samuel Willson, 150a, lot 70
• Samuel Wright, 88a, lot 196
• Thomas Boyd, 88a, lot 123
• Thomas Collins, 150a, no lot listed
• Thomas Lyon, 88a, lot 121
• Thomas Oswald, 150a, lots 190, 228
• Thomas Steet, 150a, lot 299
• Thomas Williams, 83a, lot 83
• William Beaty, 100a, lot 154
• William Bell, 88a, lot 39
• William Boyd, 84a, lot 133
• William Boyd, husband of Azuba McKillop - lot 257
• William Brown, 130a, lots 219, 220
• William Hogans, 88a, lot 132
• William Hoy, 150a, lot 44
• William Mathews, 150a, lot 140
• William McCleary, 88a, lot 124
• William McCoy, 88a, lot 160
• William Moncreif, Jr., 88a, lot 44
• William Moncreif, Sr., 100a, lots 41, 48
• William Rogers, 88a, lot 173
• William Slown, 84a, lot 217
• William Smith, 150a, lot 190
• William Terrel, 88a, lot 36
• William Thomson, 150a, lot 22

County of Washington--

I do hereby Certify that the above named persons of the County of Washington has given me Sattisfactory Proof that they actually resided on the Respective Farms--annexed to their names, in the division of a patent of Twenty-five Thousand acres of Land Originally granted to Alexander Turner and twenty four others on the 7th day of August 1764, and that on Account of the Late War, they were respectively Obliged to Quit their said Farms by the Incursions of the Enemy, as Witness my hand this 24th day of January 1789. David Hopkins, one of the Judges of Washington County

Albany, January 24, 1789. I Certify that the within is a true Copy of a Certificate and Shedule Signed by David Hopkins, Esq., one of the Judges of Common pleas for Washington County, and I do futher Certify that the several persons therein named are free from paying all past as well as future quit rents for the number of acres set opposite to their respective names.

Peter S. Curtenius, SA Patent to Alexr. Turner etc. 7th August 1764, 14,246 acres. Extracted from Sleeper News, volume 3, number 4, November 1995. Copyright 1995.

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Identified Turner Patent Possessors, Names, (Acres, Lot Numbers(s) not yet identified) are:

• Archibald Todd - Fitch Gazetteer, Vol. 3, p. 486, Note 231

Research Notes

• Patten, History of the Somonauk United Presbyterian church near Sandwich, De Kalb County, Illinois : with ancestral lines of the early members https://archive.org/details/historyofsomonau00patt - Page 346

• If searching property records in Washington County, and you cannot locate references in the Turner Patent, you may wish to research The Argyle Patent.