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John Laurance (1750 – November 11, 1810) was a delegate to the 6th, 7th and 8th Congresses of the Confederation, a United States Representative and United States Senator from New York and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New York. He briefly served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate in December 1798.
Laurance resumed private practice in New York City from 1782 to 1785. He was a member of the New York State Assembly, serving from 1782 to 1783 from Westchester County, and from New York County from 1784 to 1785. Laurance was a delegate to the 6th, 7th and 8th Congresses of the Confederation (Continental Congresses) from 1785 to 1787 then served as a member of the New York State Senate from 1788 to 1790. Laurance was elected as a Federalist from New York's 2nd congressional district to the United States House of Representatives of the 1st and 2nd United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1793. Laurance was nominated by President George Washington on May 5, 1794, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New York vacated by Judge James Duane. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 6, 1794, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on November 8, 1796, due to his resignation after his election as United States Senator from New York.
Laurance was elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate from New York to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Senator Rufus King and served from November 9, 1796, until August 1, 1800, when he resigned. He briefly served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate during the 5th United States Congress. Following his departure from Congress, Laurance resumed private practice in New York City from 1800 to 1810, residing there until his death. He was interred at the First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan.
OurCampaigns website, John Laurance, accessed March 1, 2022.
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<li>12/06/1798 President Pro Tempore Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>11/08/1796 NY US Senate - Appointment Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>11/04/1794 NY US Senate Lost 1.28% (-58.97%)</li>
<li>04/27/1790 NY District 2 Won 98.43% (+96.87%)</li>
<li>02/11/1789 NY District 2 Won 86.26% (+73.63%)</li>
<li>12/31/1786 NY Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1785 NY Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1784 NY Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress biography, John Laurance, accessed March 1, 2022.
LAURANCE, John, a Delegate, a Representative, and a Senator from New York; born near Falmouth, England, in 1750; immigrated to the United States and settled in New York City in 1767; pursued academic studies; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1772 and practiced in New York City; served in the Revolution as a commissioned officer; appointed judge advocate-general in 1777 and presided at the trial of Maj. John Andre; regent of the University of the State of New York 1784; trustee of Columbia College 1784-1810; Delegate to the Continental Congress 1785-1787; member, State senate 1789-1790; elected to the First and Second Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1793); appointed by President George Washington to be United States judge of the district of New York in May 1794, and served until November 8, 1796, when he resigned, having been elected Senator; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rufus King and served from November 9, 1796, until August 1800, when he resigned; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Fifth Congress; died in New York City November 11, 1810; interment in the First Presbyterian Churchyard, Fifth Avenue and Twelfth Street.
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Wikipedia article, John Laurance, accessed March 1, 2022.
<p>John Laurance (sometimes spelled "Lawrence" or "Laurence") (1750 – November 11, 1810) was a delegate to the 6th, 7th and 8th Congresses of the Confederation, a United States Representative and United States Senator from New York and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New York.</p>
<p>Laurance briefly served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate in December 1798.</p>
<p>Born in 1750, near Falmouth, Cornwall, England, Laurance immigrated to the Province of New York, British America in 1767 and settled in New York City.</p>
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Laurance, John, 1750-1810
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Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (inclusive), 1700-1800 (bulk)
Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (bulk:1700-1800)
Title:
Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (inclusive), 1700-1800 (bulk)
The portion of the Emmet Collection housed in the Manuscripts and Archives Division consists of approximately 10,800 historical manuscripts relating chiefly to the period prior to, during, and following the American Revolution. The collection contains letters and documents by the signers of the Declaration of Independence as well as nearly every prominent historical figure of the period.
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30.83 linear feet; 108 boxes, 21 volumes
Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876, 1700-1800
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John Laurance papers, 1694-1835 (bulk 1770-1809).
Laurance, John, 1750-1810. John Laurance papers, 1694-1835 (bulk 1770-1809).
Title:
John Laurance papers, 1694-1835 (bulk 1770-1809).
Correspondence, accounts, receipts, wills, deeds, assorted land papers and legal, military, and financial documents, 1694-1835 (bulk 1770-1809), of Revolutionary officer, judge, and New York senator John Laurence.
Laurance, John, 1750-1810. Descriptive account pertaining to New York judicial affairs, 1784.
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ALS, 1834 February 21 : Washington, to John L. Laurance.
Marshall, John, 1755-1835. ALS, 1834 February 21 : Washington, to John L. Laurance.
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ALS, 1834 February 21 : Washington, to John L. Laurance.
Acknowledges receipt of documents concerning militia at Jamaica and Brooklyn which called into question Marshall's account of the Battle of Long Island in his biography of Washington. Says if he had possessed the information, he would have omitted or varied the account.
Marshall, John, 1755-1835. ALS, 1834 February 21 : Washington, to John L. Laurance.
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Laurance, John, 1750-1810
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Nathaniel Pendleton Family papers 1716-1853
Nathaniel Pendleton Family papers, 1716-1853
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Nathaniel Pendleton Family papers 1716-1853
Correspondence and legal and financial papers reflecting Pendleton's service in the Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Nathanael Greene, and his close connection with Alexander Hamilton. The correspondence includes letters from Samuel Finley, Mrs. Nathanael Greene, Alexander von Humboldt and Otho Holland Williams. Legal and financial papers as well as correspondence of Alexander Hamilton are also included since Pendleton was executor of his estate. Also included are legal documents of the Bard family and papers of other members of the Pendleton family, among them Edmund H. Pendleton and Philip C. Pendleton. Other documents in the papers relate to Indian lands in Georgia (1788) and a summary of a treaty between the King of Spain and the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Cherokee Indians, dated 1793.
ArchivalResource:
2.75 linear feet (1 box, 1 folio)
Title:
Nathaniel Pendleton family papers, 1716-1853 (inclusive), 1782-1817 (bulk).
Correspondence and legal and financial papers reflecting Pendleton's service in the Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Nathanael Greene, and his close connection with Alexander Hamilton. The correspondence includes letters from Samuel Finley, Mrs. Nathanael Greene, Alexander von Humboldt and Otho Holland Williams. Legal and financial papers as well as correspondence of Alexander Hamilton are also included since Pendleton was executor of his estate.
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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).
[Payroll book. Fishkill, Peekskill, and Valley Forge, 7 Jan 1777-3 March 1778].
United States. Continental Army. New York Regiment, 1st. [Payroll book. Fishkill, Peekskill, and Valley Forge, 7 Jan 1777-3 March 1778].
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[Payroll book. Fishkill, Peekskill, and Valley Forge, 7 Jan 1777-3 March 1778].
Payments to approximately 300 named officers and men cover service for Sept. through December 1776 and were disbursed chiefly between 7 Jan. and 29 March 1777 ; one payment occurred at Valley Forge on 31 March 1778. Accounts for disbursements of pay for the 8 companies under Captains: W.A. Forbes (p. 15, 27, 39, 40); E. Hyatt (p. 13, 25, 43); J. Johnson (p. 5, 41, 42); B. Ledyard (p. 7, 29, 30, 51); David Lyon (p. 9, 37, 38, 49); C. Steenrod (p. 11, 31); [A.?] Van Wyck (p. 3, 34); and J. Wiley (p. 45, 46). Officers sign for their pay on p. [1]-[3], witnessed by Tho. Bradford. The 1st New York was organized in 1775 at Albany and reorganized 15 April 1776 to consist of 8 companies. On 26 Jan. 1777 it was consolidated with the 4th New York. Pay represented herein covers service at the battles of Harlem Heights and White Plains.
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1 v. ([2], 51, [38] p.) ; 33 cm.
United States. Continental Army. New York Regiment, 1st. [Payroll book. Fishkill, Peekskill, and Valley Forge, 7 Jan 1777-3 March 1778].
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Laurance, John, 1750-1810
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Scriba's patent, townships 9 and 17 : land surveys, [1796-ca.1822].
Wright, Benjamin, 1770-1842. Scriba's patent, townships 9 and 17 : land surveys, [1796-ca.1822].
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Scriba's patent, townships 9 and 17 : land surveys, [1796-ca.1822].
Surveys of lots, 1799-ca.1822, located in townships 9 and 17 of Scriba's patent in Oneida County (later Oswego and Oneida County), New York, and owned by John Laurence and John Barker Church. Included are descriptions of the individual lots, drawings of the subdivisions, acreage, disposition, etc. Inscription on the inside pastedown of the front cover reads: "Scriba's Patent Surveyed by B[enjamin] Wright 1796." Volume encludes numerous notes and annotations added at a later date, some dated as late as 1822.
Wright, Benjamin, 1770-1842. Scriba's patent, townships 9 and 17 : land surveys, [1796-ca.1822].
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Laurance, John, 1750-1810
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Autograph collection [manuscript] / originally compiled by W.S. Worth. 1803-1865.
Worth, W. S. Autograph collection [manuscript] / originally compiled by W.S. Worth. 1803-1865.
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Autograph collection [manuscript] / originally compiled by W.S. Worth. 1803-1865.
Correspondents include George Bancroft, Theodoric Romeyn Beck, John Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin Franklin Butler, David Daggett, Samuel Whittelsey Dana, William Alexander Duer, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Samuel Jones, John Laurence, William North, Benjamin Silliman, John Canfield Spencer, Joel Barlow Sutherland, William Peter Van Ness, Abraham Van Vechten, Benjamin Walker, William Wirt. Among the recipients are Henry Clay, Samuel Cooper, Isaac Hull, William Learned Marcy, Morris Smith Miller, Eliakim Parker Scammon, Stephen Van Rensselaer and Benjamin Walker. Topics include Confederate Civil War orders, exchange of Civil War prisoners in Florida in 1865; deWitt Clinton, Rufus King, the Federalist Party and the New York Senatorial elections of 1819; and student defiance at Yale in 1825.
Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793. Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to John Lawrence, 1786 Mar. 6.
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Laurance, John, 1750-1810
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Autograph File, L, 1641-1976.
Autograph File, L, 1641-1976.
Title:
Autograph File, L, 1641-1976.
The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.
Papers, 1774-1830, the majority dating from the Revolutionary War. They include letters received, drafts of letters sent, acounts, receipts, military orders, inventories, muster and pay rolls, military pay accounts, indentures, court-martial papers and civil court papers. They deal with: Varick's command of a company in Alexander McDougall's battalion at Ticonderoga and in Canada during 1775; service on courts-martial in 1775; problems of the batteau service in northern New York State in 1776; his position as secretary to Gen. Philip Schuyler in 1775-1776; his work as deputy muster master general, inspector general at West Point, first aide-de-camp to Benedict Arnold (including papers about Arnold's defection and subsequent investigations), and as recording secretary for George Washington (including papers about the transcription of Washington's letters). Many pertain to suits handled by him as an attorney practising in Poughkeepsie in 1782-1783, and in New York City after the war. The remainder include: papers about veterans' claims to military lands in New York State, including some maps; letters from various French persons, ca. 1780 to ca. 1800; papers relating to the settlement of the estate of Derick Dey, Varick's maternal grandfather, and the affairs of other members of the Dey family; personal and family correspondence and accounts; a few documents signed by Varick in his capacity as mayor of New York. Some of his more frequent correspondents were: Lt. Daniel Gano, Cornelius Cuyler, Philip John Schuyler, Gen. Horatio Gates, Col. Joseph Ward, Col. John Lamb, John Varick, Jr., Richard Lush, John Lansing, Jr., Henry Rutgers, Jr., Jacob John Lansing, Henry Sewall , Lewis Woodruff, William Bradford, Jr., John Morin Scott, Daniel Carthy, Dirck Romeyn, Henry Glen, Matthew Visscher, Peter W. Yates, John Laurance, Peter Elting, Philip Van Rensselaer, Col. Jonathan Trumbull, John V.B. Varick, John Sanders, and Simeon De Witt.
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2.3 linear feet (ca. 1,600 items)
Hawk family. Hawkes family papers, [ca. 1820-ca. 1900].
Title:
Hawkes family papers, [ca. 1820-ca. 1900].
Correspondence, agreements, accounts, maps, bills, receipts, invitations, and other papers related to the Hawkes family (ca. 1820-ca. 1900). Most of the collection concerns the extensive property holdings of Ann Bolton. Peter S. Smith of Smith & Brown, Oswego, was her agent and attorney until the 1830s when she engaged her son, a New York attorney, who continued to be connected with the properties until 1882. Included are items concerning Mrs. Bolton's claim that her brother was dishonest in the handling of their father's estate, as well as in other matters.
Hawk family. Hawkes family papers, [ca. 1820-ca. 1900].
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Laurance, John, 1750-1810
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Richard Varick Papers 1743-1871 (bulk 1775-1830)
Richard Varick Papers, 1743-1871 (bulk 1775-1830)
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Richard Varick Papers 1743-1871 (bulk 1775-1830)
Richard Varick, born in New Jersey, 1753, served as Captain, deputy muster-master-general, and George Washington's secretary during the Revolutionary war. He was appointed one of the first mayors of New York and served from 1789-1801. He died in 1831. His papers contain items resulting from his military, legal, and political careers, as well as personal and familial correspondence and accounts--including letters received, drafts of letters sent, accounts, receipts, military orders, inventories, muster and pay rolls, military pay accounts, indentures, court-martial papers and civil court papers.
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