Records of the Secret Committee for Obstructing the Hudson River, 1776-1777.

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Records of the Secret Committee for Obstructing the Hudson River, 1776-1777.

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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.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Jay, John, 1745-1829

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John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, Founding Father, abolitionist, negotiator, and signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783. He served as the second governor of New York and the first chief justice of the United States. He directed U.S. foreign policy for much of the 1780s and was an important leader of the Federalist Party after the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. Jay was born into a wealthy family of merchants and...

Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813

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First chancellor of New York State; agriculturalist and ambassador to France. From the description of Robert R. Livingston papers, 1707-1862. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58779437 Continental Congressman, diplomat, member of the New York Provincial Covention, the Continental Congress and served as U.S. Minister to France. From the description of Letter, 1802. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145407295 Robert R. Livingston ser...

Paulding, William I. (William Irving), 1825-1890

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Tappen, Christopher, 1742-1826

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Christopher Tappen was of Ulster County, New York. From the description of Survey map of Caters Kill, Ulster County, New York, 1787. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122641199 ...

New York (State). Convention of the Representatives (1776-1777)

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Yates, Robert, 1738-1801

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Yates was appointed to the New York Supreme Court in 1777; in Sep. 1790 he was made Chief Justice of the court and served until 1798. He was a delegate from New York to the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, but left believing the Convention had gone beyond their mandate in writing the U. S. Constitution. He was very anti-federalist and is believed to have written a series of anti-federalist papers (Oct 1787-Apr. 1788) under the pseudonym Brutus. From the description of [Document] 1789...

Livingston, Gilbert Robert, 1786-1834

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