Letter, 1795 November 2.

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Letter, 1795 November 2.

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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; ..."

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Billings, Andrew

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Yates, Abraham, 1724-1796

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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. From the guide to the Abraham ...