Knowing your solicitude for the success of our cause I hasten to communicate to you the proceedings of a meeting we had in the Town of Claverack yesterday which if it does not satisfy you of the probability of our success in this county will at least shew that we deserve it.
I... Continue Reading
We have again been beaten, most shamefully beaten. Notwithstanding the greatest possible exertions on our part, the embargo & the Idea of fFrench influence produced a most extraordinary Effect, ^many^ although satisfyed of the propriety & necessity of the measure, many Voted for the federal... Continue Reading
Recd. Kinderhook August 15th. 1808 of Henry Van Hoevenbergh thirty eight shillings for my <fees> <a>on granting Letters of Administration on the Estate of Rudolph Van Hoevenbergh dcd.
TO MARTIN VAN BUREN, Esquire, Surrogate
of the County of Columbia,
The Petition of John Myers
Respectfully Represents—
That your Petitioner is a Minor, above the age of fourteen years, and that according to the best of his information, knowledge and belief, he was nineteen years of age on the about... Continue Reading
THE PEOPLE of the State of NEW-YORK,
by the Grace of God Free and Independent:
To William Garrison of the Town of Livingston in the County of Columbia, send Greeting—
Whereas Joseph Myer son of Jacob Myer late of the Town of Livingston in Columbia County, deceased, an Infant under the age of twenty... Continue Reading
This Indenture, Made the twenty-eigth day of october in the year of our Lord one thousad eight hundred and eight BETWEEN Tobias D Van Buren & Harmen Vosburgh of the first part, and Martin Van Buren of the second part, WITNESSETH, That the said party of the first part, for and in consideration... Continue Reading
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, William Van Alen of the Town of Kinderhook & County of Columbia being now about the age of nineteen years, have elected, chosen, and by these presents do elect and choose Cornelius Van Alen Jun of the Town of Kinderh in said county, to be Guardian of my... Continue Reading
I a few days since by accident saw a “public Advertiser” containing a piece addressed to you & alledging some Base & unworthy conduct on the part of the supposed author of Aristides.” You may rest assured that the assertion contained in it is false, feeling disagreeable on the subject I... Continue Reading
Our mutual friend Mr Ludlow has represented to me his extreme necessity for some money, his unavailing attempts to obtain ^it^ & his Total inability to get it from any other quarter than from you, of all of which I am truly sensible, and has further solicited me to prevail on you to help him.... Continue Reading
Subscribers names
Bond note or otherwise
To whom payable
Date
principal
Indorsement
Interest till 1st Jany 1809
Total amount
John Van Alen
Note
Martin Van Buren
Dect. 2: 1808
$252.50
none.
$1.38
253,, 88
Elisha Williams
"
ditto
Octr. 27. 1807
25.80
do
2.12
27 92
DGardenier & Jno... Continue Reading
As well those of you who are attached to the present administration of your general and state governments, as you who, though doubting the propriety of some of their measures, have still a sense of patriotism, a love of country that soars above the mean and selfish considerations of party—we invite... Continue Reading
REPUBLICAN PATRIOTISM.
CITY OF HUDSON.
At a General Meeting of the Citizens of Hudson, friendly to the measures of Government in their resistance to the outrages of foreign powers, and determined to support them in the exercise of their legal duties and constitutional authorities, convened by... Continue Reading
I am really sorry to trouble you more with the party than you already are, especially when discretion and Ingratit[ude] are becoming the almost universal returns f[or] Favours rendered, the case however to wh[ich] I beg your attention is one of a nature to which I consider myself bound to pay every... Continue Reading
I Consider the Within acount as rendered under my oath of office as a Statement of the Demands ^or claims^ against the Estate of Peter L Van Alen deceased, theIt is impossi[ble] for me to fix on any amount for which to sell and Indeded I think such an order would be Improvident as from the... Continue Reading
To all to whom these Prese[nts] [shall] come, or may concern, I Thomas Turner Esquire, Sheriff of th[e] County of Rensselaer send Greeting: WHEREAS by [virtue of a] writ of Testatum Fieri Facias issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the People of the State of New-York, to me directed and... Continue Reading
Be pleased to state in your paper, that the assertions, that I laid the letters attributed to Mess. Elisha and Marshal Jenkins, jun. before the council of appointment, or that I had any agency in laying or advising them to be laid before the council, or either of its members, is an infamous ... Continue Reading
The handbill of yesterday impeaching the official conduct of John C. Hogeboom, esqr. Sheriff of this county, I consider myself the author of, and as, if I cannot substantiate the facts, I must retract them. I now call upon you to exhibit the bills of the said Sheriff, and as his friend, I have no... Continue Reading
Recorded July 13th 1809 This Indenture made the eighteenth day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nine Between George Chittenden of the Town of Kinderhook and Ruth his wife of the one part & Martin Van Buren of the City of Hudson Counsellor at Law of the other part ... Continue Reading