[Map of the former Claverack, Kinderhook and Rensselaerwyck patents now part of Columbia and Rensselaer Counties, New York] / laid down by John R. Bleecker ; copied from a map and survey made by John R. Bleecker by Robert Yates. [between 1764 and 1780]

Bleecker, John

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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...