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George Croghan's Otsego land patents from the original drawn c.1790 by Simeon DeWitt Esq. Surveyor General &c. State of New York.

The river on the left (west) side of the map is the Unadilla, labeled the Tianaderha River on the map.
The river in the northeast corner of the map is the Mohawk.
The river flowing south out of Otsego Lake (labeled Oaks Creek on the map) is actually the Susquehanna River.

This image is part of foldout map in:

The Old New York Frontier, 1614-1800 by Francis Whiting Halsey, New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1901.

The credit for the map reads:

Early Land Titles on the Frontier with dates and owner's names, . . . Reduced from a map compiled about 1770 by SIMEON DEWITT and printed in Volume I of "The Documentary History of the State of New York."

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