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1789688571789. New York: Hugh Gaine 1789. 2 vols bound in one. New York: Hugh Gaine 1789. 2 vols bound in one. Handsome 1789 Folio Edition of New York Laws with Two Interesting Laid-In Manuscript Notes New York. Jones Samuel 1734-1819 Compiler. Varick Richard 1753-1819 Compilers. Laws of the State of New-York Comprising the Constitution And the Acts of the Legislature Since the Revolution From The First to the Twelfth Session Inclusive. Published According to an Act of the Legislature Passed the 15th April 1786. New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine 1789. Two volumes bound as one. iv 336 12 xii 2; ii 471 17 pp. Two laid-in manuscript notes 5-3/4" x 8" 6" x 8." Folio 10" x 15". Contemporary calf blind fillets to boards "Leonard Bronk" gilt-stamped to center of front board rebacked retaining existing spine with raised bands and lettering piece spine ends repaired hinges mended. Light rubbing to boards and extremities moderate rubbing to board edges corners bumped. Moderate toning light foxing in a few places offsetting to margins of preliminaries and rear endleaves. $3500. The first volume of collected New York laws printed after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the second issued after the American Revolution the 1789 compilation contains laws passed 1778 through 1789 regulating such topics as governance mortgages debtors land slaves New York City criminal and marital law rape liquor and exports. Also includes an interesting law in King's county Brooklyn and Queen's county Queens establishing a 40 shilling fine to those carriages traveling from the City of New York that fail to give right of way to carriages going toward the city. Also includes the Constitution of the State of New York passed April 20 1777. The laid-in notes are quite interesting. The first is a contract between New York City Mayor Richard Varick and Hugh Gaine dated February 7 1792. It directs the city treasurer to pay Gaine 73 pounds for "printing an emission of notes for small change." Issued two months before the establishment of the U.S. Mint this note is essentially an authorization by the State of New York to issue fractional currency. The U.S. Constitution prohibited states from issuing paper money but it appears that a few states and municipalities issued notes or at least authorized them in the early 1790s. Backed by the faith and credit of the issuer these notes f. unknown books
1719676061719. London: Printed for John Baskett 1719. Folio. London: Printed for John Baskett 1719. Folio. 1719 Compilation of New York Laws Printed in London by John Baskett New York. Acts of Assembly Passed in the Province of New-York From 1691 To 1718. London: Printed for John Baskett Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1719. xv 292 pp. Folio 13-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked gilt rules to boards extra gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece endleaves retained hinges mended. Shallow scuffing to boards some rubbing to extremities corners bumped hinges starting early armorial bookplate of the Oswalds of Dunnikier Fife to front pastedown. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places light foxing to a few leaves light soiling and faint spotting to title page a tear near the gutter carefully repaired. A very handsome copy. $3000. Published the same year as William Bradford's compilation this was the fourth codification of New York laws preceded by three collections printed by William Bradford in 1694 1710 and 1713. It comprises all the acts of the New York Assembly from 1691 through 1718 including many concerning trade and slaves such as the 1709 "Act for Preventing the Conspiracy of Slaves." According to Rich Baskett's edition was likely copied from Bradford's and "according to Trott printed by order of the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantation." Titles of expired or repealed laws are included. The Oswalds of Dunnikier Fife were a politically connected family of Scottish merchants active in the Atlantic trade. Rich Bibliotheca Americana Nova 26. Tower The Charlemagne Tower Collection of Colonial Laws 609. Benedict Acts and Laws of the Thirteen Original Colonies and States 332. unknown
1792592511792. New York: Printed by Thomas Greenleaf 1792 2 vols. New York: Printed by Thomas Greenleaf 1792 2 vols. Early Post-Revolutionary Compilation of New York Laws New York. Laws of the State of New York Comprising the Constitution And the Acts of the Legislature Since the Revolution From the First to the Fifteenth Session Inclusive. New York: Printed by Thomas Greenleaf 1792. 2 volumes. iv 511 1 pp.; iv 521 15 pp. Octavo 8" x 4-3/4". Contemporary sheep blind fillets red gilt lettering pieces and black-stamped volume numbers to spine. Light rubbing to extremities corners bumped light fading to spines minor chipping to spine head of Vol. I. Toning to text light browning and negligible foxing in places internally clean. An appealing set. $750. First octavo edition. With the Constitution of the State of New York in volume one each volume with an index at the rear and volume two with a subscriber list that includes Aaron Burr for 3 sets Edward Livingston and other prominent New Yorkers of the period. This was the second compilation of New York's laws published since the Revolution and the first octavo edition. This format was chosen to make this edition more affordable. 1400 subscriber copies were issued. Complete in itself a third volume was added to this title in 1798. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 350. unknown
176437800New York: Hugh Gaine 1764. First edition. Original full sheep five raided bands red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Boards very worn front board detached repaired owner's bookplate Historical Society stamp on title and a few leaves first two blanks and first three leaves browned and ragged at the edges two small holes from erasure of name on title leaf one just nicking the V in Votes old but expert repairs to edges of first dozen leaves worming to the margins of about a dozen middle leaves affecting a few words on one leaf only last leaf ragged with a few worm holes affecting a few letters last two blanks lacking portions of lower corner and ragged occasional light dampstaining mostly marginal otherwise leaves clean and impressions sharp. Good. iv 840 2. Signed in type by the editor Abraham Lott Junr. Signed in manuscript "Bound by Rob. McAlpine" at the conclusion of the preface. Contains the added leaf with the "Act of Parliament for reversing the Attainder of Jacob Leisler Jacob Milbourne and Abraham Governeur who were executed for not delivering the Fort at New York to Richard Ingoldsby 1690" Sabin. Evans states that this leaf is "often lacking." Page numbers 665-666 omitted from pagination. Evans 9756. Sabin 53719. ESTC W6332. Marke p. 80. Larned 161. Hugh Gaine hardcover books
1794WRCAM16030New York 1794. Engraving 4 x 7 1/2 inches. Very good. The first or second printed view of Saratoga New York. This appeared originally in the December 1794 issue of the NEW YORK MAGAZINE. It shows elegantly dressed persons on a fenced lawn overlooking the river being served by a young Black servant. unknown books
172328535New York: Printed by William Bradford 1723. 4 pp folio. Caption title as issued. Loose and lightly toned else Very Good. Housed in a modern cloth binder with gilt-lettered spine title. <br /> <br /> This rare item is the first statute establishing New York chancery fees thus curing "the Inconveniences that may thereby ensue" from their absence. No Chancery Officer "shall exact demand or ask any greater or other Fee or Fees" than the amounts enumerated herein. These regulations limit the "Governour's Fees as Keeper of the Great Seal of this Province" as well as fees of Masters Registers Clerks Examiners Solicitors and other officers. <br /> This is an early effort to curb the exercise of arbitrary power by hungry court officers. Governor Burnet signs in type at the end.<br /> Evans 2468. ESTC W34081. Printed by William Bradford unknown
1710WRCAM39062New York: Printed by William Bradford 1710. 20pp. Folio. Dbd. Light scattered foxing. Very good. A rare early Bradford imprint. This list is expanded from an earlier version of the same year giving Gov. Robert Hunter's comprehensive table of administrative fees for the various offices and courts of New York and New Jersey printed by William Bradford the "pioneering printer of the English middle colonies" and first printer of New York. This early edition of Hunter's ordinance was published at the beginning of his remarkably popular governorship of New York an office he held until 1719. Later editions of the ordinance were published with the LAWS. of New York in 1713 and 1719; the present edition was reprinted separately in 1716 Evans 1848 but signed "Ro. Hunter" at the end instead of "R. Hunter" as it is here. Also in this edition line 9 of the caption title ends "&c." Rare with only eight copies recorded at six institutions in ESTC. EVANS 1482. ESTC W11521. Printed by William Bradford unknown books
172328535New York: Printed by William Bradford 1723. 4 pp folio. Caption title as issued. Loose and lightly toned else Very Good. Housed in a modern cloth binder with gilt-lettered spine title. <br/><br/> This rare item is the first statute establishing New York chancery fees thus curing "the Inconveniences that may thereby ensue" from their absence. No Chancery Officer "shall exact demand or ask any greater or other Fee or Fees" than the amounts enumerated herein. These regulations limit the "Governour's Fees as Keeper of the Great Seal of this Province" as well as fees of Masters Registers Clerks Examiners Solicitors and other officers. <br/> This is an early effort to curb the exercise of arbitrary power by hungry court officers. Governor Burnet signs in type at the end.<br/>Evans 2468. ESTCP W34081 7- AAS Huntington Columbia Harvard NY Hist. Soc. Brown HSP. Not in Cohen. Printed by William Bradford unknown books
1781WRCAM12197Brussels 1781. Engraving 6 1/4 x 4 inches. Very good. This small dramatic engraving shows New York on fire on September 21 1776 when a large part of the city was burned during the engagement between the forces of Washington and Howe. This imaginative view appeared in Michel Hillard D'Auberteuil's ESSAIS HISTORIQUES ET POLITIQUES SUR LES ANGLO- AMERICAINS Brussels 1781-82. OLDS BITS & PIECES OF AMERICAN HISTORY 10. unknown books
1764WRCAM28821New York: Hugh Gaine 1764. Two volumes. 48402; 28118pp. Thick folio. Contemporary calf. Heavily scuffed spines worn. Internally clean. Good. In worn half blue morocco slipcases red gilt morocco labels. These two massive volumes record the complete proceedings of the New York Assembly from the establishment of William and Mary's rule through the end of 1765. An invaluable source for New York. According to Evans the act for reversing the attainder of Jacob Leisler and others the appendix leaf in the first volume is usually lacking. EVANS 9756 10418. Hugh Gaine unknown books
176624264New York: Hugh Gaine 1766. Volume I: iv 840 2 pp. Folio printed in double columns. Text generally clean occasional foxing or tanning. Several errors in page numbering but text consecutive and complete Very Good. <br/> Volume II: 2 811 1 blank viii pp. Folio printed in double columns. Text generally clean occasional foxing or tanning blank margins of last index leaves chipped. Very Good in attractive matching modern half calf raised spine bands gilt-lettered spine title on black morocco.<br/><br/> "First edition of the most important legal collection of its time and a cornerstone of New York and American colonial history" Jenkins. "Edited by Abraham Lott" Sabin. Marke says "The constitutional history of New York can be followed in" this offering and Larned calls it "important." Included in Volume I is the last leaf which Evans says "is often lacking" reversing the attainder of Jacob Leisler and others "who were executed for not delivering the Fort at New York to Richard Ingoldsby 1690" Sabin. <br/> Although Journals of New York General Assembly Sessions had been published annually this is their first compilation. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 9756 10418. Marke 80. Larned page 10 #161. Sabin 53719. Hugh Gaine unknown books
170928950New York: William Bradford 1709. Folio. 11 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. 40pp. Expertly bound to style in half calf over period marbled paper covered boards spine with raised bands in six compartments ruled in gilt on either side of each band red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment<br/> <br/>The votes of the New York Assembly 1709.<br/> <br/>A very rare and interesting imprint containing New York colonial acts passed between April 7 to November 12. It was printed by William Bradford New York City's first public printer. Bradford 1663-1752 originally settled in Pennsylvania where he began operating a printing press in 1685 and a bookstore in 1688. Controversies within the Quaker community with Bradford supporting the dissident George Keith led to the temporary seizure of his types and paper in 1692 and in 1693 he moved to New York. The present documents are among the earliest of official New York imprints. The present Journal includes the address to Governor Lovelace as well as a note of his death after less than a year in office one day after the Assembly granted him £1600. Page 39 final paragraph contains instructions to Bradford to print the laws of the Colony "since the arrival of Coll. Slaughter" i.e. Henry Slaughter governor in 1691 who died that same year together with details on its distribution. This is a very rare work; ESTC records four copies one of which is defective though Evans and Rosenbach note a fifth copy at the New York Public Library. Rosenbach offered a copy for $385 in 1938 and a copy possibly the present sold at Anderson Galleries in 1913 for $485.<br/> <br/>ESTC W11517; Evans 1424. William Bradford unknown books
177426611New York: Hugh Gaine 1774. Folio two volumes in a single contemporary calf volume some rubbing hinges firm but each has small separation at the top. Raised spine bands somewhat faded spine lettering. Pages iv 420; 4 421-835 i.e. 833 1 errata as issued. Contemporary signature of Peter Silvester on title page. Occasional light tanning light wear two lightened spots on title page not affecting any type. Very Good. <br /> <br /> Peter Van Schaack the editor signs the Preface in type. This comprehensive compilation commences with the First Assembly in 1691. It ends with the Sessions of the Twenty-Ninth Assembly in 1773 which enacted a law that made defacing statues of the King a crime. The Acts encompass the broad spectrum of the requirements of a developing society including a number of laws regulating the behavior of slaves and the institution of slavery. <br /> Evans 13467. ESTC W6510. Hugh Gaine unknown
177430509New York: Hugh Gaine 1774. Folio two volumes in one continuously paginated. Pages iv 420; 4 421-835 i.e. 833 1 errata as issued. Title vignette of the State Seal Reilly 941. Some spotting generally in the margins; occasional toning. Small square cut from blank bottom section of the last text page. Very Good in modern blue buckram with gilt spine title. With a typed letter signed by M.J. Walsh of Goodspeed's taped to front pastedown dated August 6 1952. <br/><br/> Peter Van Schaack the editor signs the Preface in type. This comprehensive compilation of laws commences with the First Assembly in 1691. It ends with the Sessions of the Twenty-Ninth Assembly in 1773 which passed a statute making defacing statues of the King a crime. The Acts encompass the broad spectrum of the requirements of a developing society including a number of laws regulating the behavior of slaves and the institution of slavery. <br/>Evans 13467. Hugh Gaine unknown books
177426611New York: Hugh Gaine 1774. Folio two volumes in a contemporary calf binding some rubbing hinges firm but each has small separation at the top. Raised spine bands somewhat faded spine lettering. Pages iv 420; 4 421-835 i.e. 833 1 errata as issued. Contemporary signature of Peter Silvester on title page. Occasional light tanning light wear two lightened spots on title page not affecting any type. Very Good. <br/><br/> Peter Van Schaack the editor signs the Preface in type. This comprehensive compilation commences with the First Assembly in 1691. It ends with the Sessions of the Twenty-Ninth Assembly in 1773 which passed a statute making defacing statues of the King a crime. The Acts encompass the broad spectrum of the requirements of a developing society including a number of laws regulating the behavior of slaves and the institution of slavery. <br/>Evans 13467. ESTC W6510. Hugh Gaine unknown books
178931069New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine 1789. Large folio. 10 3/4" x 15 1/2". Two volumes in 20th century binder's cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. Vol. I: 3 1 blank 336 11-Index 1 blank xii 1 1 blank; Vol. 2: 1-title 1 blank 471 1 blank 17-index 1 blank pp. Volume 1 is lacking the final blank leaf. A clean and bright text. Very Good. <br /> <br /> Samuel Jones and Richard Varick compiled this book "which comprehends the Constitution and the public Statutes of this State from the Revolution to the End of the Twelfth Session of the Legislature." <br /> Volume I opens with the 1777 New York Constitution. The Statutes through 1789 are printed all under the reign of the long-serving Governor George Clinton. Revolutionary Acts-- such as raising five Continental Battalions Lotteries regulating the militia treatment of deserters-- are included. <br /> Several Acts concerning New York's efforts gradually to eliminate slavery are here: barring slave importations after June 1 1785 for purposes of sale penalizing purchase of slaves or trading or selling liquor to slaves; criminal slave codes and other laws reflecting the existence of slavery in New York. Acts concerning Quakers respect their scruples against bearing arms. Many civil criminal governmental and commercial laws are printed all with a detailed index. <br /> Evans 22012. II Harv. Law Cat. 204. Printed by Hugh Gaine unknown
179232550New York: Thomas Greenleaf 1792. Two volumes: 4 511 1 blank; 4 521 1 blank 14- Subscribers pp as issued. Later library cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels some chipping old institutional rubberstamps on title leaf scattered spotting Good. <br /> offered with LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK COMPRISING THE CONSTITUTION AND THE ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE SINCE THE REVOLUTION FROM THE FIRST TO THE TWENTIETH SESSION INCLUSIVE. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOLUME III. New York: Greenleaf. 1797. 4 98 1 99-100 1 8 107-160 1 160-258 5 260- 354 3 356-500 1 504-525 1 pp as issued. Matching library cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels some chipping old institutional rubberstamps on title leaf scattered spotting Good. <br /> <br /> These are the first editions of Greenleaf's printing of the Laws. The third volume which issued in 1797 prints only the laws of the sixteenth through the twentieth sessions.<br /> The long list of Subscribers printed in the second volume includes the great men of the times: Aaron Burr George and De Witt Clinton several Livingstons Elias Hicks and a host of other attorneys. Greenleaf reprinted all three volumes together in 1798. <br /> Greenleaf's Preface explains that he had been "engaged to publish a cheap Edition of the Revised Laws". A 1789 folio edition published by Hugh Gaine had been too expensive for most people. Volume I which "contains all the Laws to the eleventh Session has one Session more than is comprised in the first Volume of Gaine's Edition." He emphasizes that "The Types and Paper were manufactured in this State.The Types are not so perfectly Regular as those from the London Foundaries which have been improving for Centuries-- but no Cash went to London for them-- and our infant Manufactures ought to be encouraged that they also may improve." <br /> Evans 24602 32555. NAIP w033259 w016519. Thomas Greenleaf unknown
179817843Albany: Loring Andrews & Co. 1798. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Tall 8vo. Untrimmed. pp 2 243-535 1 blank 5 1 blank as issued. Light uniform tanning Very Good. <br /> <br /> With Table of Contents and Errata at the end. The Laws include an Act validating Quakers' manumissions of slaves even where such manumissions did not conform to prescribed legal procedures; an Act incorporating the firemen of the City of New York; an Act permitting aliens to purchase land in the State under certain conditions; and a host of other Acts dealing with courts corporations municipalities and other matters.<br /> According to ESTC this is a very scarce imprint. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Evans 34215. II Harv. Law Cat. 202. ESTC W42182 1- HSP. Loring Andrews & Co. unknown
179232550New York: Thomas Greenleaf 1792. Two volumes: 4 511 1 blank; 4 521 1 blank 14- Subscribers pp as issued. Later library cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels some chipping old institutional rubberstamps on title leaf scattered spotting Good. <br/> offered with LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK COMPRISING THE CONSTITUTION AND THE ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE SINCE THE REVOLUTION FROM THE FIRST TO THE TWENTIETH SESSION INCLUSIVE. IN THREE VOLUMES. New York: Greenleaf. 1797. 4 98 1 99-100 1 8 107-160 1 160-258 5 260- 354 3 356-500 1 504-525 1 pp as issued. Matching library cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels some chipping old institutional rubberstamps on title leaf scattered spotting Good. <br/><br/> These are the first editions of Greenleaf's printing of the Laws. The third volume which issued in 1797 prints the laws of the sixteenth through the twentieth sessions; AAS apparently does not own it. The long list of Subscribers printed in the second volume includes the great men of the times: Aaron Burr George and De Witt Clinton several Livingstons Elias Hicks and a host of other attorneys. Greenleaf reprinted all three volumes together in 1798. <br/> Greenleaf's Preface explains that he had been "engaged to publish a cheap Edition of the Revised Laws". A 1789 folio edition published by Hugh Gaine had been too expensive for the folks. Volume I which "contains all the Laws to the eleventh Session has one Session more than is comprised in the first Volume of Gaine's Edition." He emphasizes that "The Types and Paper were manufactured in this State.The Types are not so perfectly Regular as those from the London Foundaries which have been improving for Centuries-- but no Cash went to London for them-- and our infant Manufactures ought to be encouraged that they also may improve." <br/>Evans 24602 32555. NAIP w033259 w016519. Thomas Greenleaf unknown books
178931069New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine 1789. Large folio. 10 3/4" x 15 1/2". Two volumes in 20th century binder's cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. Vol. I: 3 1 blank 336 11-Index 1 blank xii 1 1 blank; Vol. 2: 1-title 1 blank 471 1 blank 17-index 1 blank pp. Volume 1 is lacking the final blank leaf. A clean and bright text. Very Good. <br/><br/> Samuel Jones and Richard Varick compiled this book "which comprehends the Constitution and the public Statutes of this State from the Revolution to the End of the Twelfth Session of the Legislature." Volume I opens with the 1777 New York Constitution. The Statutes through 1789 are printed all under the reign of the long-serving Governor George Clinton. Revolutionary Acts-- such as raising five Continental Battalions Lotteries regulating the militia treatment of deserters-- are included. Several Acts concerning New York's efforts gradually to eliminate slavery are here: barring slave importations after June 1 1785 for purposes of sale penalizing purchase of slaves or trading or selling liquor to slaves; criminal slave codes and other laws reflecting the existence of slavery in New York. Acts concerning Quakers respect their scruples against bearing arms. Many civil criminal governmental and commercial laws are printed all with a detailed index. <br/>Evans 22012. II Harv. Law Cat. 204. Printed by Hugh Gaine unknown books
1792592511792. Early Post-Revolutionary Compilation of New York Laws New York. Laws of the State of New York Comprising the Constitution And the Acts of the Legislature Since the Revolution From the First to the Fifteenth Session Inclusive. New York: Printed by Thomas Greenleaf 1792. Two volumes. iv 511 1 pp.; iv 521 15 pp. Octavo 8" x 4-3/4". Contemporary varnished sheep blind fillets lettering pieces and black-stamped volume numbers to spine. Light rubbing to extremities corners bumped light fading to spines minor chipping to spine head of Volume 1 hinges starting. Toning to text light browning and negligible foxing in places internally clean. $950. Only edition. With the state constitution a digested index and subscriber list that includes Aaron Burr Edward Livingston and other prominent New Yorkers of the period. This was the second compilation of New York's laws published since the Revolution and the first octavo edition. This format was chosen to make this edition more affordable. 1400 subscriber copies were issued. Complete in itself a third volume was added to this set in 1798. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 350. unknown books
180035109Albany: Loring Andrews & Co. 1800. Modern buckram with institutional stamps on covers spine and fore-edge. 294 8 pp. Tanned scattered foxing Good. With Table of Contents and Errata at the end. Acts dealing with elections crimes courts corporations municipalities and other matters. <br/>Evans 38087.<br/> bound with LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. JANUARY 1801. Albany: Loring Andrews. 1801. 226 4 pp. Toned scattered foxing Good. Loring Andrews & Co. unknown books
179817843Albany: Loring Andrews & Co. 1798. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Tall 8vo. Untrimmed. pp 2 243-535 1 blank 5 1 blank as issued. Light uniform tanning Very Good. <br/><br/> With Table of Contents and Errata at the end. The Laws include an Act validating Quakers' manumissions of slaves even where such manumissions did not conform to prescribed legal procedures; an Act incorporating the firemen of the City of New York; an Act permitting aliens to purchase land in the State under certain conditions; and a host of other Acts dealing with courts corporations municipalities and other matters. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 34215. II Harv. Law Cat. 202. Loring Andrews & Co. unknown books
1797100410<p>Square folio 13 ½ x16 ½ partially printed yellowed at edges some darkening and a little soiling light chipping and a few very short closed tears at edges a little browning document split in half down center crease but repaired on verso with tape small remnant of wax seal and several paper seals. Overall in good condition. This is a court document titled "An Inquisition Indented" signed by the twelve jurors who decided the plaintiffs to be paid damages thirty-three pounds five shillings and two pennies. All signatures are highly legible. The document names Jacob John Lansing Sheriff of the city of New York as the official in this judgment. </p> books
1795WRCAM46466Whitestown N.Y.: O.P. Easton 1795. Broadside 13 x 16 inches. Docketed and annotated on verso. Old folds. Moderate soiling some ink burn. Minor loss at folds affecting a few letters of text. About good. Printed indenture form completed in manuscript being the earliest known imprint for Whitestown New York just next to Utica. Previously the earliest known imprint was dated 1795 and as this form is dated in manuscript January 3 1795 it is almost certain that it was printed in or before 1794. The form is an indenture agreement completed between Amos Leavenworth and his wife Esther and Samuel W. Baldwin and his wife also named Esther selling a tract of land for the sum of £209 ten shillings and eight pence. In manuscript the parcel is indicated as "that certain tract of land situate in Schuyler Town aforesaid and is part of Great Lot No. Seven in the first division of Ledagueda Patent on the North Side of the Mohawk River beginning at the Northeasterly corner of said lot and running thence Northeasterly along the north end of said lot one half the distance across the land conveyed to said Leavenworth by William Hallock thence Southwesterly in a straight line parrallel sic to the line of Cosby's Manor so far as to contain sixty six acres and two thirds of an acre of land when a line is un at right angles to Cosby's Manor." It is signed by Amos and Esther Leavenworth and witnessed by Joan Platt and William Hallock. The deed is certified on the verso with a lengthy manuscript note by Hugh White local judge for Herkimer County. O.P. Easton unknown books
