Found 3 collections related to Legal instruments

Collection consists almost exclusively of land papers, such as indentures, partition deeds, quit claims, mortgages, tax bills, receipts, estate papers, and a map relating to New York City real estate owned by members of the Staples and Sherman families, particularly John and William Staples and Elizabeth Sherman. Other documents concern legal disputes pertaining to these properties. The properties documented are predominantly located in lower Manhattan and the Lower East Side. less

William Coventry (1715-1774) was a prominent merchant of New York City and the island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts) in the West Indies. He married Elizabeth Hart in 1739. The collection contains letters written to him at New York and St. Kitts, 1750-1768, and legal documents, 1758 and 1766, chiefly concerning business matters to be handled by Coventry while at St. Kitts. Correspondents include members of the Reade, Livingston and Beekman families of New York writing from various locations, especially David Beekman on the island of St. Eustatius. Two powers of attorney, 1758 and 1766, appoint Coventry to collect debts at St. Kitts; the 1766 document is by David Beekman and Nicholas Cruger, merchants at St. Croix. There are also letters with a related power of attorney concerning the Dutch ship Stadt Rotterdam, libelled at the Vice-Admiralty Court at St. Kitts, dated 1758. It was captured by the privateer sloop-of-war Tyger, whose owners included Joseph Reade, John Waddell, and John and William Livingston. The collection also contains a letter dated May 18, 1758 from Sarah Garnett to Coventry's wife Elizabeth with her response written on it, and two brief letters to Elizabeth Coventry from George Coventry at Albany, 1759, regarding monies sent. less

The Mercantile Collection, 1726-1950, is a synthetic collection documenting mercantile and other business activities from the early-17th to the mid-20th centuries, especially in the northeastern United States. It consists of papers and records created by persons, firms, and companies engaged chiefly in trade, finance, insurance, mining, railroad management, shipping, and whaling. A few items pertain to manufacturing and real estate. Transatlantic commerce in the colonial and early-national period, and the early railroad industry in America, are strongly represented. Notable material includes the assorted papers of New York City and Philadelphia merchants, among them members of the Pemberton family of Philadelphia; Vice-Admiralty court proceedings; and the incomplete ledger of an 18th-century New York City druggist. less