[Document] 1789 Jan. 21 / Robert Yates.

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[Document] 1789 Jan. 21 / Robert Yates.

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Yates acknowledges receipt of 51 pounds from Gerard Bancker, at the time the Treasurer of New York State. The salary was probably for his post as a justice of the New York Supreme Court.

[1] leaf ; 17 cm.

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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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...