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Brooks, David. Description of lot sold to Gilbert Livingston, 1806 June 10.

Title: Description of lot sold to Gilbert Livingston, 1806 June 10.

A description of a lot of land surveyed by David Brooks and sold by Andrew Billings to Gilbert Livingston. The description provides a detailed description of a lot in the village of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

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Alexander family. Alexander papers, 1668-1818 (bulk 1717-1786).

Title: Alexander papers, 1668-1818 (bulk 1717-1786).

Personal, professional, legal, and financial papers, 1668-1818 (bulk 1717-1786), of James Alexander, merchant, lawyer, and public official of colonial New York and New Jersey, James' wife, Mary Alexander, and their son, William Alexander, also known as Lord Stirling. Materials include correspondence, land surveys, mostly of properties in New Jersey, wills, deeds, conveyances, accounts, bills, receipts, invoices, sight drafts, time drafts, promissory notes, memoranda, writs, warrants, depositions, affidavits, briefs, legal opinions, legal arguments, judgements, minutes, and petitions. Series of court papers contains writs, warrants, motions, statements of case, pleas, dockets, indictments, etc., pertaining to court cases prosecuted during James Alexander's time as attorney-general of New Jersey or cases with which he was involved as part of his private practice. Also included in this series are the findings of Coroner's Juries. Court cases documented here include both civil and criminal cases heard before courts in New York and New Jersey, including the New Jersey Court of Chancery, the New Jersey Court of Vice-Admiralty, the New Jersey Supreme Court, the New York Court of Admiralty, and the New York Supreme Court. Papers relating to the New Jersey Proprietors principally concern the Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, for whom James Alexander served as agent. Material includes minutes of the Proprietor's meetings, reports, accounts, and memoranda; and relate to various aspects of the administration of the proprietorship, including the advertising, surveying, and sale of lands, and the distribution of dividends. Other material concerns the dispute between the Eastern and Western Proprietors over the exact location of the boundary between East and West New Jersey. Also included in this series is the diary, 1752-1775, of George Ryerse, who acted as the Eastern Proprietor's agent in Bergen County. Papers relating to the administration of the colony/state of New Jersey include drafts of legislation, instructions to the personnel of the Surveyor general's office, and copies of commissions issued to colony/state officials. Similar series of documents pertaining to the colony/state of New York include drafts of legislation, petitions, material regarding the establishment of the New York-Connecticut boundary, and material regarding the establishment of the New York-New Jersey boundary. Final series of business papers contains documents relating to the business affairs of individuals other than James, William, and Mary Alexander; including bills, accounts, receipts memoranda, etc. of a wide variety of persons. Included in this series is material created by or pertaining to a group of New York landowners collectively called the Second Nine Partners, Cortlandt Skinner, the merchant house of McVicker & Hill, New York Merchant Robert Snell, and merchants Andrew Bell and Peter Smitzer, both of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft. (60 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475961269 View

Livingston, Catherine. Indenture for land, 1807.

Title: Indenture for land, 1807.

Lease to James More, 1807, located south of Cannon Street in [Poughkeepsie, New York?].

ArchivalResource: 1 deed, 1 map.(1 survey map : manuscript ; 33 x 19.5 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122520146 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.

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Eddy, Thomas, 1758-1827. Letter, 1803 April 1.

Title: Letter, 1803 April 1.

Letter to Gilbert Livingston urging him to build a stone bridge across the Schuylkill as part of Livingston's road building project. Eddy goes further to state his views on road building in general and stresses quality roads that will last over less expensive and hastily built roads. Written at New York, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364402 View

Bayard, Stephen, 1700-1757. Stephen Bayard letters, 1728-1743.

Title: Stephen Bayard letters, 1728-1743.

Four letters from Stephen Bayard to Gilbert Livingston of Kingston, N.Y., and one to Evert Wendell of Albany, dated New York between 1728 and 1743, before Bayard became mayor of the city. The correspondence is largely concerned with financial matters, especially debts Bayard wished to collect. One letter to Livingston is signed by both Stephen and Nicholas Bayard; another, dated December 6, 1731, mentions new governmental appointments in New York and New Jersey and praises a grand jury charge by James De Lancey.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (5 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/703387730 View

Brooks, David. Letter, 1806 September 27.

Title: Letter, 1806 September 27.

"Judge Brooks presents his compliments to Mrs. G. Livingston and wishes her to inform the bearer whether it will be convenient for her to permit his horse to run in her pastures. He is perfectly quiet and inoffensive."

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

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Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813. Letter, 1802.

Title: Letter, 1802.

Letter to Gilbert Livingston discussing a boat he had seen in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Livingston provides a detailed description of the construction of the boat and its operation, so that Gilbert may have one built in the United States. Written at Paris, France.

ArchivalResource: 4 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145407295 View

Livingston, Gilbert. Receipts for Henry Livingston Estate Funds, 1801.

Title: Receipts for Henry Livingston Estate Funds, 1801.

Gilbert Livingston was the executor of the estate of Henry Livingston. This document contains three receipts for funds paid out of the proceeds of the sale of estate property. The receipts are signed by Paul Schenk, Robert Livingston and Theodorus Bailey. All three receipts are of a different date.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122468598 View

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Miscellany, 1755-1835

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Miscellany, Volume XI, Miscellany, 1755-1835

Portraits, prints, letters, and documents tipped into Volume 11 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856)

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (84 items)

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Dutchess County manuscripts, 1683-1884.

Title: Dutchess County manuscripts, 1683-1884.

Original and typescript copy of record book of the Great Nine Partners Patent, 1730-1743, concerning rent and land transactions; manuscript account of a trial at Poughkeepsie over boundaries in the Nine Partners area, 1754; map of the Nine Partners Patent, 1697; 1875 copy of the Nine Partners Patent deed, 1697; letter to Gilbert Livingston from Rev. John Beardsley concerning the Church at Nine Partners, 1789; agreement between Henry A. Livingston and James Nassar, 1801; extract from the minutes of the Society of Friends Quarterly Meeting at Oblong, 1779, and records concerning Paral Upton, 1797; subscription list for the minister's salary at the Dutch Reformed Church in Poughkeepsie, 1787; and miscellaneous deeds, clippings, receipts, and railroad papers, 1773-1884.

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155530571 View

Smith, Melancton, 1744-1798. Letter, 1789 January 1.

Title: Letter, 1789 January 1.

Letter to Gilbert Livingston discussing Smith's views on the constitution and its provisions. Mentions DeWitt [Clinton?] and Smith Havens in particular. Written at New York, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122488035 View

Cox, Jameson, register. [Map of the area later bounded by Frankfort Street, Pearl Street, Fulton Street and Nassau Street, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)] / the original of this map was made by Captn Wm. Bond ; copied by G.W. Bridges ; xd E.W. Bridges ; copied from the map on file in Registers Office by Jameson Cox Register.

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by Frankfort Street, Pearl Street, Fulton Street and Nassau Street, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)] / the original of this map was made by Captn Wm. Bond ; copied by G.W. Bridges ; xd E.W. Bridges ; copied from the map on file in Registers Office by Jameson Cox Register. 1830 29 Nov.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms. ; 52 x 69 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54474100 View