Series 1 (5 December 1782-31 December 1811)
State of New York
County of Columbia
At a Court of Probates held in & for the County of Columbia at the City of Hudson the 13th day of September 1809.
Present Martin Van Buren Surrogate
Be it remembered that on the day and year first above written John Herman Administrator of all & singular the goods chattles and credits of Ahimaaz Herman of the Town of Canaan in the County of Columbia... Continue Reading
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Supreme Court
John Hogan Admr &c
&
Arent Pruyn
Rd June 6th 1809 twenty seven Dollars towards the Costs
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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 Witnesseth, that the Said George Chittenden and Ruth his wife for and in consideration of the sum of... Continue Reading
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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 delivered, tested the [. . .] [day] of November in the thirty-third year of the Independence of the... Continue Reading
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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 of the Sum of fifty Dollars lawful money of the state of New-York, to them in hand paid, at or before... Continue Reading
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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 person and estate, real and personal, until I shall attain the age of twenty-one years: And I do... Continue Reading
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 the first day of August last.
That your Peitioner is owner of and legally entitled to certain <... Continue Reading
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KNOW all Men by these Presents, That we Jesse Gifford, Ebenezer J Cady, Rowland Gifford and Aron Shermahorn all of the town of Chatham in the County of Columbia, are firmly bound unto the People of the State of New-York, in the sum of one thousand Dollars, current Money of the said State, to be paid to the said People, to which Payment, well and truly to be made, we do bind ourselves and each of... Continue Reading
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Columbia
County, Ss.
-Capias.-
THE People of the State of New-York by the Grace of God Free and Independent; To our Sheriff of our County aforesaid, Greeting:—WE command you that you take Joseph Butler
if he shall be found within your Balliwick, and him safely keep, so that you may have his Body before our Judges and Assistant Justices, at our Court of Common Pleas, to be held at the Court-House... Continue Reading
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Supreme Court
Wilhelmus Pulver
admr.
James Jackson
Ejectment for lands on the East side of
en dem <Tenvilleger>
Valities Hill under the Fladder & Baker
Pattent
Plaintiff Title
13th. April 1667
1st. Flodder & Baker pattent
15th. may 1669
IId Deed from Baker to Flodder
IIId. Death of Jacob I <illegible> Flodder leaving Jan Jacob his heir at Law... Continue Reading
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Know all men by these presents that We Abraham Vosburgh & John A. Vosburgh are held & Firmly bound unto Peter L Hogeboom in the sum of twelve hundred & fifty six Dollars & seventy five Cents to be paid to the said Peter his heirs Executors administrators or assigns with Interest, For the Payment whereof We Bind ourselves our heirs, Executors & administrators in the penal sum... Continue Reading
By a statute of the State, it is directed that every person to whom to whom any Legacy is given or bequest made, shall at the time of payment or delivery thereof, give bond in double the amount of such share or legacy with two sufficient sureties, to refund, if there should ultimately be a deficiency of Assets in the hands of the Executors to pay the debts of the Testator. This has never been... Continue Reading
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Columbia County Ss: James Jackson complains of John Stiles in Custody &c for that Whereas John J. Van Alen ^Junr^on the first ~ Day of May ~ one thousand eight hundred and four at the Town of Kinderhook in the County of Columbia, had demised, granted and to Farm, let unto the said James Jackson one dwelling House, one Garden, twenty acres of arable Land, twenty acres of Pasture Land, twenty... Continue Reading
Considering the importance of Elocution and Legal knowledge particularly among Gentlemen whose profession is the Law, we whose names are subscribed to these articles have entered into an Assocication for improvement in the foregoing branches of Science, to be called and known by the name of the Kinderhook Law Society.
I. The Society shall meet on Saturday evening of each week precisely at six... Continue Reading
Enclosed I send you $20 which you will please to Indorse on the Note you hold against me, I would send you the full amount, but a late lone of a considerable sum and under Circumstances of peculiar Necessity renders it very Inconvenient.
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