John McKesson papers, ca. 1760 - ca. 1820.

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John McKesson papers, ca. 1760 - ca. 1820.

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Correspondence and papers, ca. 1760 - ca. 1820, chiefly the papers of John McKesson and of his nephew, also named John McKesson and also an attorney in New York City. There are also correspondence and papers of John R. Cozine, an attorney related to the McKessons by marriage. Many items pertain to the elder John McKesson's interest in and holdings of disputed Vermont lands, including correspondence with Samuel Stevens of Charlestown, New Hampshire, Jacob Bayley, Stephen and Moses Little, and Crean Brush. George Clinton was also involved in the matter, and is mentioned often. Other papers pertain to various matters connected with the Revolutionary War in New York, Bush family property in Greenwich, Connecticut, Cayuga Indian reservation lands in New York in 1791, and litigation handled by the McKessons and by John Cozine. The papers include correspondence, legal papers, bills of legal costs, deeds and releases, promissory notes, bonds, petitions, and patriotic and romantic poems and songs. The collection also contains letters and miscellaneous papers of the New York Committee of Safety, 1775-1777; minutes of the New York Provincial Congress, June 4-8, July 8-19, 1776; and material related to the Federal Constitution. This consists of the original minutes of the debates in the Convention of the State of New York on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, June 19 - July 3, 1788, and, in loose form, continuing through at least July 25th. In addition there are many loose resolutions and amendments, a record of the vote on various motions, as well as the original certificates of the supervisors of the counties furnished to their delegates as credentials (all except New York, Columbia, and Clinton counties). There is also a volume recording the proceedings of the Convention of the State of New York in a Committee of the whole on the report of the "Convention of the States lately assembled in Philadelphia," June 19-July 7, 1788. There are also some minutes of meetings of the Republican General Committee, resolves, bills for an ox roast in 1806, lists of names, and miscellaneous papers pertaining to meetings of the general committee, of ward committees, or of Republican citizens, 1803-1819.

4.0 linear feet (10 boxes, 1 oversize)

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Bayley, Jacob, 1726-1815

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Cozine, John

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McKesson, John, 1772-1829.

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McKesson, John, 1734-1798

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Little, Moses, 1724-1798

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