Papers, 1745-1846.

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Papers, 1745-1846.

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The Zephaniah Platt papers are organized into four series. Family correspondence is primarily letters to Zephaniah Platt by his children. Correspondence is concerned chiefly with land matters involving Zephaniah Platt and others, for the most part in Dutchess and Clinton Counties, New York. Family members, military officers, government officials, and proprietors of patents are represented including Egbert Benson, R. Cochran, David Gelston, members of the Livingston family, Simon R. Reeves, Melancton Smith, and Hugh White. There are some letters to family member Reverend Frederick Halsey who founded the First Presbyterian Church of Plattsburgh. Financial and legal items include an account memorandum book of Zephaniah Platt for 1785, business agreements, military certificate and inspection returns for Clinton County, receipts, and estate papers and wills for Gerard W. Beekman (1786), Gisbert Pele [Pelze?] (1755, 1790) and John Platt (1771). Land papers consist of abstracts, agreements (including a list of the original proprietors for Plattsburgh), deeds and maps for lands in Nine Partners Patent, Dutchess County and various patents in Clinton County. There are seven maps including Sadaqueda Patent, 1784, Oneida County, New York; Bell's Tracts, [Clinton County], New York; Township No. 24, [Somerset, Windham County, Vermont?]; Dean's, Beekman's, and Kelly's Patents, Clinton County, New York; and two which are unidentified.

1 box (.25 cu. ft.)survey maps 7 maps : manuscript ; 54 x 45.5 cm. or smaller.

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Platt, Zephaniah, 1735-1807

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Gelston, David, 1744-1828

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Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833

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White, Hugh, fl. 1785.

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De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834

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Served as surveyor general of New York State from 1784 until his death in 1834. From the description of Letters : to Augustus Porter and Major Donald Fraser, 1828, 1832. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 57182677 Surveyor; graduated from Queens College (now Rutgers University), 1776; served as Assistant Geographer of the Army, 1778-1780, and as Chief Geographer of the Army, 1780-1783; served as Surveyor General of New York, 1784-1834. From the descrip...

Livingston family.

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Halsey, Frederick, 1731-1838.

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Smith, Melancton, 1744-1798

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Continental Congressman, merchant, lawyer. From the description of Letter, 1789 January 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122488035 Revolutionary patriot. From the description of Envelope with free frank : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874700 Merchant, lawyer, politician. Smith was an anti-Federalist delegate to the 1788 convention to ratify the Federal Constitution held at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. From the description of Papers, ...