Pratt family papers, 1758-1903.

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Pratt family papers, 1758-1903.

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Letters received by Horace L. Edgar Pratt, a Protestant Episcopal rector on Staten Island, New York; also, a Civil War draft exemption certificate issued to John A Kernochan, Sept. 10, 1863; Queens County documents including a four year indenture apprenticing Joseph Lawrence to Effingham Lawrence; a bill of sale selling Joseph, a Negro boy; a receipt for a twelve pound bounty for William Aitken for New York militia service during the Revolutionary War; and a proclamation of Governor George Clinton.

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Aitken, William A. P., 1917-

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Pratt family.

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Clinton, George S., 1941-....

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Lawrence, Joseph.

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Kernochan, John A.

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