Abraham Van Dyck | The Papers of Martin Van Buren

Abraham Van Dyck (1778-1835) was a lawyer who resided in Coxsackie, New York and engaged in suits alongside and against MVB throughout his legal career. In 1814, he served a single term in the New York State Assembly representing Greene County.

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MVB to Abraham Van Dyck, 4 September 1826

I shall go to Newyork on Friday Morg & return from there to Catts kill. Any day between this & that you wish to come up I shall be happy to see you.

Sender: MVB

Recipient: Abraham Van Dyck

MVB to Abraham Van Dyck, 8 September 1826

I arrived here this morng & shall probably, though not certainly, remain untill my appointment requires my attention at Cats kill. Will you have the goodness to write me particularly when that is. I wrote you before I left Albany, advising you of the time of my departure to enable you to come up before I left Town if you wished. If you can send me a statement of the case & points here I... Continue Reading

Sender: MVB

Recipient: Abraham Van Dyck

MVB to Abraham Van Dyck, 10 November 1827

Judge Duer has sent me word by my son that he has or will decide our cause in our favour. I wish you would inform Mr H[a]llenbeck of it & advise his son to come to Albany a week from to day when I will be home & when he can pay me the balance of my fee. My hand is yet lame from the bruise I received in pounding the truth into his honour & I know of nothing so likely to cure it as a... Continue Reading

Sender: MVB

Recipient: Abraham Van Dyck

MVB to Abraham Van Dyck, 23 November 1827

Mr Hallenbeck has sent me fifty dollars since I wrote you & I have ^left^ directions with Mr. Lorenzo Hoyt of this City partner to Mr Butler to receive the other fifty which I suppose is to be paid by Mr Hunter & pay it out for me. Will you do me the favour to remind him of it. I congratulate on the result.

Sender: MVB

Recipient: Abraham Van Dyck

MVB to Abraham Van Dyck, 28 November 1814

It seems to me you are very much disposed to be captious & short with me & I really do not know why or wherefore. As I sure have felt always very friendly to you I am sure you can never have had any reasons for it. Now as I am always averse to sparring or quarrelling about nothing this tartness had better be laid aside. The plain State of the case is you have had sundry bills of Costs... Continue Reading

Sender: MVB

Recipient: Abraham Van Dyck

MVB to Abraham Van Dyck and John Leendert Bronk, 21 November 1814

Your notice for taxing Costs &c in the causes against Seloner & others was not received untill the day immediately preceeding the taxation, or I should have attended to it. It was understood betwen Mr VanDyck & myself that the Costs were to be taxed when we were both at Albany. Now I must ^can^ have a retaxation now you know of course. I propose therefore that the Costs be retaxed on... Continue Reading

Sender: MVB

Recipient: Abraham Van Dyck

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