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Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804. Letter ; [New York], to Stephen Van Rensselaer, 1786 May 10.

Title: Letter ; [New York], to Stephen Van Rensselaer, 1786 May 10.

Letter to Stephen Van Rensselaer discussing the result of inquiries made concerning Van Rensselaer's estate. Also discusses the situation of Abraham Yates, who lost the office of Commissioner of Loans by refusing to take an oath of secrecy. Mentions his return home to Albany and preparations which need to be made. Written at New York, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122537005 View

The state of New York to Alexander McDougall.

Title: The state of New York to Alexander McDougall.

Receipt for McDougall's attendance in the New York state senate as a member from the Southern District from Jan. 6-March 23, 1786 for which he was owed 44 pounds 2 shillings. The form is dated May 9, 1786, and is signed by Abraham Yates and John Laurance (McDougall's son-in-law).

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/778206880 View

Commissioners for Superintending the Building of a Jail and the Repair of the Albany County Courthouse. Petition, 1791 December 24.

Title: Petition, 1791 December 24.

Petition by Abraham Yates, Peter W. Yates, Philip Schuyler, Abraham Ten Broeck, Stephen Van Rensselaer, and Teunis P. Van Vechten, as Commissioners for superintending the building of a jail and the repair of the Albany County Courthouse, to the Legislature of New York. They state that the four thousand pounds allotted to these purposes is insufficient and that 1500 pounds is required to complete the repairs. They propose that the Court House be sold, as it is not in a convenient location, and the money from the sale, added to the additional 1500 pounds, be used to erect a new building.

ArchivalResource: 2 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86164588 View

John Tabor Kempe Papers

Title: John Tabor Kempe Papers

The John Tabor Kempe Papers contain primarily court case records (12 boxes) for the colonial province of New York during the tenures of Attorneys General William Kempe and his son, John Tabor Kempe. The bulk of these records date from 1752 to 1774, and concern civil disputes, often over land ownership, tenancy and estates, as well as criminal acts. Also included in the papers are professional correspondences of both John Tabor Kempe and William Kempe, court agendas and fees, legal papers, land and property records, financial records, government documents, and a photograph.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 Linear feet

https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/nyhs/ms344_john_tabor_kempe/ View

Yates, Abraham, 1724-1796. Abraham Yates, Jr. papers, 1604-1825, bulk (1760-1796).

Title: Abraham Yates, Jr. papers, 1604-1825, bulk (1760-1796).

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, speeches, notes, estate papers, photograph, and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 2.2 linear feet (5 boxes, 1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122576196 View

Billings, Andrew. Letter, 1795 November 2.

Title: Letter, 1795 November 2.

Letter written at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. to Abraham Yates, Albany, N.Y. "I have been honored with your favor of the 26th ultimo enclosing a resolution of the council respecting the purposals I made, but find the dissatisfaction so great on account of the other clock that the board cannot make any agreement for a new one. Therefore to give full and ample satisfaction I have concluded to make your people a new clock at my own expense; ..."

ArchivalResource: 2 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122346545 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Ten Broeck, Abraham, 1734-1810. Receipt, 1781 September 17.

Title: Receipt, 1781 September 17.

Receipt from Abraham Ten Broeck and Abraham Yates of $12.00 each "new emission money" from Gerard Bancker, as an allowance for "superintending the cancelling 24,647 Bills of Credit of this State."

ArchivalResource: 1 page.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122601517 View

New York. Representatives. Letter, 1776.

Title: Letter, 1776.

Requests help in removing cattle and sheep from Long Island, New York, after the British forces had landed there.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 31 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42979640 View

Abraham Yates, Jr. papers, 1604-1825, 1760-1796

Title: Abraham Yates, Jr. papers 1604-1825 1760-1796

Abraham Yates, Jr. (1724-1796) was an American politician and pamphleteer. A radical Whig who was elected to New York provincial congresses and conventions, he was chairman of the convention (1776-1777) which drafted the first state constitution, served as a state senator from 1777 to 1790, and was mayor of Albany from 1790 to 1796. He wrote anti-federalist pamphlets with his relative, jurist Robert Yates (1738-1801), under the pen-name The Rough Hewer. Collection consists of correspondence, writings, speeches, notes, estate papers, photograph, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1754-1825, concerns the activities of Abraham Yates as a political figure in New York State. Writings, notes and speeches include essays he wrote on the U.S. Constitution, notes on proceedings in Congress, speeches to the delegates to Congress in 1786, The Rough Hewer manuscript, and notes for histories of New York and Albany. Also, papers relating to the Manor of Rensselaerwyck and the Albany Committee of Correspondence, land and family records, photograph of painting of Yates, and other items such as broadsides and a legal treatise by Thomas Wentworth printed in London in 1663.

ArchivalResource: 2.2 linear feet (5 boxes, 1 v.)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3405 View

John Tabor Kempe Papers

Title: John Tabor Kempe Papers

The John Tabor Kempe Papers contain primarily court case records (12 boxes) for the colonial province of New York during the tenures of Attorneys General William Kempe and his son, John Tabor Kempe. The bulk of these records date from 1752 to 1774, and concern civil disputes, often over land ownership, tenancy and estates, as well as criminal acts. Also included in the papers are professional correspondences of both John Tabor Kempe and William Kempe, court agendas and fees, legal papers, land and property records, financial records, government documents, and a photograph.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 Linear feet

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Johnson, Kathryn Wright. Unearthing a Yates family ancestry in America from the seventeenth century, 1983.

Title: Unearthing a Yates family ancestry in America from the seventeenth century, 1983.

Genealogy of the Yates family, including Joseph Yates of Albany, Robert Yates of Schenectady, Abraham R. Yates of Schenectady and Yatesville, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155413255 View

Francis, Turbot. Speeches at a meeting with the sachems of the Six Nations, 1775.

Title: Speeches at a meeting with the sachems of the Six Nations, 1775.

A manuscript copy (and photocopies) of speeches delivered at meetings of the sachems of the Six Nations--the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca Indians--and Indian commissioners Volkert Down, Turbot Francis, and Oliver Wolcott. The meetings, witnessed by Continental Congressmen James Duane, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Lynch, and Abraham Yates, and supervised by Philip Schuyler, were preliminary steps to win cooperation of the Six Nations in the war against Britain.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17852271 View

Yates, Abraham, 1724-1796. Abraham Yates, Jr. writings, 1754-1758 (inclusive), [microform].

Title: Abraham Yates, Jr. writings, 1754-1758 (inclusive), [microform].

The reel contains writings of Abraham Yates, Jr. (Box 3 continued), specifically a journal/copybook dating from 1754-1758.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122453027 View