Miscellaneous autographs, New York State

Letters, legal documents, and other official communications, mainly concerning business transactions. Documents include indentures conveying plots of land to new owners (1798 and 1845), the will of New York City merchant William Constable (1817), a butcher's license to operate in Albany (1823), receipts for purchases (1833), appointment of a deacon for the Methodist Episcopal Church in Watertown (1836), an appropriation of funds to Abraham V. Putnam from the Commissioners of the Canal Fund for enlargement of the Erie Canal (1843), a commission for a colonel in the state militia (1844), official communications from the U.S. Treasury (1861, 1865), and a trademark registration from the U.S. Patent Office (1907). Letters discuss politics, social and speaking engagements, and family news. Also included is a circular from the headquarters of the Republican County Committee (1878), signed by Frank Hiscock, asking the recipient to send in a list of names of local "luke-warm Republicans, doubtful Democrats or Labor Reformers" so that they can be sent "some sound Republican newspaper" until the next election. Correspondents include John V. N. Yates, George W. Clinton, Daniel D. Bernard, U.S. Treasurer Francis Elias Spinner, Albert Bierstadt (who signs a letter written by his wife Rosalie, 1874), Theodore Sedgwick, Unitarian minister Samuel J. May, Columbia University president Nicholas Murray Butler, Theodore Roosevelt (writing as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1898), Joel Benton, Elbert Hubbard (writing in 1909), and William Sulzer, among others.