Papers, 1686-1867.

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Papers, 1686-1867.

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These are mainly the papers of the Hon. Abraham Van Vechten, who was born in Catskill, N.Y., in 1762, and died in Albany in 1837. He was one of the first lawyers admitted to the bar after the adoption of the State Constitution and soon ranked with the gifted men of that time, among whom were Hamilton, Harrison, Burr, Jones and Livingston. At various times he held the positions of recorder of the city of Albany, 1797-1808; state senator, 1798-1805 and 1816-1819; member of assembly, 1806, 1808-1813; attorney-general, 1810, 1813-1815; member of Constitutional Convention, 1821; and regent of the University of the State of New York, 1797-1823. Though in public office for some twenty years, the larger portion of his life was devoted to the practice of law and especially to the trial of cases on appeal. On several occasions he was offered the appointment of Judge of the Supreme Court but declined the honor because he preferred the labors of the bar to those of the bench; and the reports of the Appellate courts of this state give some indication of the amount of professional labor performed by him. This collection contains papers of several Greene County residents, and in particular Abraham Van Vechten (1762-1837), Jacob Van Orden (1788-1833), and Jacob J. Ten Broeck (1773-1833), who were connected through both family relationships and business interests. It is not known when or by whom these papers were brought together: the leading candidates would seem to be Jacob Van Orden's son William H. (1816-1894) and William's son Philip V. (born 1841) who are represented in the collection with some fairly late documents. Despite the fact that these papers were preserved separately from other collections of Van Vechten and Van Orden papers and came to the State Library from a source different from the others, it should not be considered as independent of them.

AQ7006: 37 boxes.SC16906: 3 boxes.

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At least seven of the signers who were paid here may be found in Thomas L. Cook's Palmyra and Vicinity as prominent citizens (Palmyra, 1930; see index). Some also appear in Backman, The First Vision (SLC, 1980). Of one of these, for example who tried to help Martin Harris borrow money to print the Book of Mormon, we obtain some interesting background in Backman's work, pp. 30, 37 (regarding Henry Jessup). Other representative names include Milo Galloway, Luther Reeves, Zebulon Reeves, Thomas Rog...

Van Orden family.

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Ten Broeck family.

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Van Vechten, Abraham, 1762-1837

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Abraham Van Vechten, son of Teunis and Judijke (Ten Broeck); Van Vechten attended Kings College (now Columbia). He was admitted to New York Bar in 1785, and practiced law at Albany, N.Y. He was a member of the New York State Senate and Assembly, served as New York State Attorney General and attended the state constitutional convention in 1821. From the description of Opinion regarding the Greenbush Lutheran Church lands. [photostat]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122617560 ...