Minutes and observations relative to the estate of the late Major General John Bradstreet

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{"value"=>"MssCol 18815", "type"=>"local_call"}

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{"value"=>"1783-1786", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1783/1786"}

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1783

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1786

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1783

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{"value"=>"Minutes and observations relative to the estate of the late Major General John Bradstreet"}

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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}

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{"value"=>"This item document the mismanagement of John Bradstreet's estate by executor Philip Schuyler. The minutes and observations detail discrepancies in the estate accounts that John Charles Evans, husband of Agatha Bradstreet, discovered after numerous interviews with Schuyler and others familiar with the estate, between 1783 and 1786."}

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{"value"=>"<p>Minutes and observations relative to the estate of the late Major General John Bradstreet, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}

origination

{"value"=>"Evans, Charles John", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>This document was created by Charles John Evans, husband of John Bradstreet's daughter, Agatha Bradstreet. John Bradstreet (1714-1774) was a Major General in the British Colonial army who participated in the French and Indian War and other military engagements leading up to the American Revolution. He died in New York City in 1774, leaving his friend General Philip Schuyler as the executor of his estate. Schuyler mismanaged the Bradstreet's assets and entered into a protracted legal dispute with his heirs that lasted through the 1780s and 1790s.</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>This item documents the mismanagement of John Bradstreet's estate by executor Philip Schuyler. John Charles Evans, husband of Agatha Bradstreet, created the document sometime before 1788, when the couple filed a bill in chancery against Schuyler. The minutes and observations, consisting of twenty compiled entries, detail discrepancies in the estate that Evans discovered after conducting numerous interviews with Schuyler and other people familiar with the assets. Evans compiled this evidence between 1783 and 1786.</p> <p>The investigation details the amount of cash that Bradstreet left in a trunk at the time of his death, as well as sums of his mortgages and loans, and expenses incurred in building his home. Martha Bradstreet (1780-1871), the general's step-granddaughter, annotated one entry, noting that it referred to the illicit relationship between John Bradstreet and Catherine Schuyler, Philip Schuyler's wife (page 8).</p>"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from the William Reese Company, 2012.</p>"}

processinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by Philip Heslip.</p>"}

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.1 linear feet (1 folder)

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1783

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1786

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