This is a transcription of the White Creek Patents from History of Washington County, New York with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some if its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Philadelphia: Everts & Ensign, 1878.
About one-third of the town is upon the Cambridge patent, mention of which is made in the general history. A portion of the Schermerhorn patent extends into this town from Jackson. In the southeast part of the town is included the Lake and Van Cuyler’s patent. Between this and the Schermerhorn patent, occupying a large portion of the northeast, east, and centre of the town, is the Wilson patent. This is stated by Hon. G. W. Jermain, in the Cambridge centennial address, to be the sameas the Embury patent. Other patents given in Hough’s Gazetteer as included in the present town of White Creek, are those of Bain, Grant, and Campbell. Land was plenty in those days, and surveyors were careless, The boundary-lines of patents consequently conflict somewhat with each other on colonial maps drawn at various times before the Revolution.