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Hancock, John, 1737-1793. Letter "To the Honorable Convention New York", 1776 June 11.

Title: Letter "To the Honorable Convention New York", 1776 June 11.

Hancock writes "The important Day is at Hand, that will decide not only the Fate of the City of New York, but ... of the whole Province ... there is no Necessity to use arguments with Americans, their Feelings I well know will prompt them to do their Duty, and the Sacredness of the Cause will urge them to the Field ... I must therefore again most earnestly request you in the Name and by the Authority of Congress to send forward the Militia ... with all the Dispatch which the infinite Importance of the Cause demands."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55230747 View

Records of the Secret Committee for Obstructing the Hudson River, 1776-1777.

Title: Records of the Secret Committee for Obstructing the Hudson River, 1776-1777.

Correspondence, resolutions, minutes, receipts, orders, and other papers concerning the obstruction of the Hudson River by the use of chains, fire ships, rafts, and sunken objects. Subjects include defense strategies, costs of obstructive objects, need for workers, outfitting of sloops, and rum supplies. Committee members were John Jay, Gilbert Livingston, Robert R. Livingston, William Paulding, Christopher Tappen, and Robert Yates.

ArchivalResource: 107 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155524907 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

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

Harison, Richard, 1747-1829. Richard Harison papers, 1734-[ca. 1900].

Title: Richard Harison papers, 1734-[ca. 1900].

The correspondence consists of letters from Richard Harison to his wife, Frances, 1790-1794, from his trips to Albany and one to Philadelphia. There seem to be periodic meetings with various well-known legal figures including Egbert Benson, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Abraham Ten Broeck, Morgan Lewis, and William North, who are mentioned in the letters. Two letters from Princeton and Philadelphia, Jan.-Feb. 1794, have interesting reference to Citizen Genet. Of his wife's letters to him, from New York, sixteen were while he was in Poughkeepsie at the Constitutional Convention in 1788, and three letters, 1783-1784, were sent to him in New Jersey while she was attending to family affairs in New York during his exile from the city. The manuscripts include his commonplace book, entitled "Extracts from various authors, upon several subjects," [after 1763]-1781, and ten genealogical and biographical records from his family papers.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. ( 1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/460879964 View

George Clinton papers, 1776-1819

Title: George Clinton papers 1776-1819

George Clinton (1739-1812) was a soldier in the American Revolution; the first governor of New York State, 1777-1795 and 1801-1804; and Vice-President of the U.S. under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1805-1812. Collection consists of correspondence, accounts, military commissions, legal documents, copies of Clinton's papers, genealogical notes, autographs, financial papers, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1776-1812, concerns Revolutionary War, gubernatorial, Vice-Presidential, and personal matters and includes some letters of other members of Clinton's family. Accounts, 1777-1791, are for personal and family expenses; military commissions, 1779-1803, are signed by Clinton as Governor of New York; with land grant, 1790, and other family legal documents, 1813, 1819. Copies of Clinton papers located in other repositories include manuscript copies of letters and speeches, 1787-1788. Also, genealogical notes, autographs, signed bank checks, clippings, and other printed matter; volume of Clinton's proclamations issued as Governor, 1777-1781; and part of the Great Seal of the State of New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot (1 box and 1 v.)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/573 View

Livingston, Peter Van Brugh, 1710-1792. Account book, 1751-1752, 1775-1778.

Title: Account book, 1751-1752, 1775-1778.

Account book containing a statement of debts, 1751-1752, due to Francis Lewis and by him assigned to Peter Van Brugh Livingston and William Alexander; along with accounts, 1775-1778, kept by Livingston as treasurer, with the New York Provincial Congress, 1775 May-1776 Nov.; the Convention of the State of New York, 1776 May-1777 Jun.; and with the State of New York, 1777 Jul.-1778 Mar. Accounts examined and certified by auditor general, Comfort Lands. Accounts of Francis Lewis record balances on accounts with creditors and individuals owing him money and include an index.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58772066 View