Editing Annsville, New York (section)

===Land===
Annsville's territory is land first acquired by John and Nicholas Roosevelt in 1791 from the New York State Land Commission.  This [[Land patent|patent]] was for 530,000 acres situated in present [[Oswego County, New York|Oswego]] and [[Oneida County, New York|Oneida]] counties.  Approximately 499,000 acres of the Roosevelt Tract became ''Scriba’s Patent'' in 1793 as partial payment of debts owed to the Scriba Bank by the Roosevelts. The land was divided into Townships at this time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scribahistoricalsociety.org/our-story/|title=SCRIBA: A GENEALOGIST'S HISTORY}}</ref> Annsville contains portions of towns 1,2,3, and 8.<ref name="Durant"/>