John W. Taylor papers, 1810-1854.

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John W. Taylor papers, 1810-1854.

This collection is composed of a hand-written genealogy and a bound volume that serves as docket and personal journal containing newspaper clippings, receipts and letters. The bound volume began as a legal docket kept by John W. Taylor from 1809 to 1811, while he served as a justice of the Saratoga County, New York, Court of Common Pleas. It records court cases, receipts of payment, receipts of land grants, marriages, and his duties and transactions as executor of John Richards's estate. A letter regarding a land grant, written by William A. Crawford, (1772-1834) Secretary of War, is also tipped into the ledger. Names represented in the docket and journal include: Clothier, Cook, Curtis, Richards and Seeley.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7666546

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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