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{"value"=>"1762", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1762"}
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{"value"=>"Memorandum on the State of the Case regarding the Van Baal patent and Normans Kill"}
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"Endorsement in a contemporary clerical hand: Mr. Yates State of the Case 1762. Rough draft. Laak [?] adv. [Lidie or Lidies]."}
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{"value"=>"<p>The lawsuit can be placed in an ongoing legal battle between the Van Rensselaers and the holders of lands under the patent of Jan Hendrickse Van Baal (also Van Bael, Van Baalen) at Normans Kill. The dispute was resolved by arbitration in the mid-1770s.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>An autograph draft memorandum analyzing the State of the Case in a legal action, possibly that identified as \"\"Ejectment Coenradt Luke Ads. John H: Lidius\"\" in the <span class=\"title\">Inventory</span> (Bundle 48, undated, offprint page 47). Yates's spelling of the plaintiff's name appears variously as Koenraat or Caunraat [La ... k], referring to his land \"now in dispute\" (page 8). The parties' names appear in John R. Bleeker's keyed <span class=\"title\">Map of the Manor Renselaerwyck</span> (1767) as Koerad Louak (112) and John Lidie (84).</p> <p>Yates analyzes the validity and boundaries of the Van Rensselaer and Van Baal patents, referring to numbered documents (prefixed \"no.\") cited by a legal adversary, and, in response, outlines a strategy supporting the Van Rensselaer position. Numbered articles (prefixed \"art.\") refer to the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions. He characterizes his writing as \"an historical account of the proceedings agreable [sic] to the vouchers as I conceive it may be pertenent [sic] to this case.\" The endorsement leaf also bears Yates's \"Memorandum of Points ...\" relating to a deed dated July 18, 1672, presented by their opponent.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Title supplied by archivist."}
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1762
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1762
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1762
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1762
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1762
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1 item : 18 pages