Letter : Albany, to James Clapp, 1812 Apr. 17.

Clapp, James, 1785-1854.

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Price, William M.

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An 1805 graduate of Columbia College and an early member of Columbia's Philolexian Society, William M. Price was a distinguished member of the New York Bar with a law practice in Oxford, New York. He went on to become the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. His career ended in disgrace when he fled to Europe in 1838 after embezzling $72,000 from the U.S. Customs Office in New York City. From the description of Letter : Albany, to James Clapp, 1812 Apr. 17. (Boston Co...

Kent, James, 1763-1847

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These maps were compiled over a period of years by Chancellor Kent, a well-known American jurist who was a dominant state supreme court judge in New York throughout the Federalist era. The extensive manuscript annotations are in his hand. These notes are often dated, some as early as the 1820s and others as late as 1840. It is unclear what prompted Kent to assemble this volume, but a possible reason was his interest in missionary activities, often referred to in the notes, which display an intim...