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[Answers to Madame de Leval]

Lists questions that Madame de Leval has posed on the left side of the paper and William Duer's answers next to the respective questions. Discusses mainly contracts and payments.

GLC02437.08247

[Note]

An I.O.U for Henry Knox for the amount of $100.

GLC02437.08601

[Receipt]

Receipt from Henry Knox for money for accommodation.

GLC02437.08632

[Note]

Note of receipt of Henry Knox for two notes of $2,500 each.

GLC02437.08642

[Note]

Promissory note to pay Henry Knox $1,000.

GLC02437.08648

[Note]

Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Promissory note to pay Henry Knox $3,000.

GLC02437.08651

[Receipt]

Receipt of Henry Knox for $350.

GLC02437.08687

[Contract]

Contract regarding the purchase of land by William Duer and Royal Flint from Samuel Philips, Leonard Jarvis and John Read. Authorizes the sale of the lands in Maine and grants Duer and Flint all of the rightful legal claims to it. Noted that Henrys...

GLC02437.10724

to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: shipping flour

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.03445

to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: invitation to ship flour

GLC03107.03484

to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: unmerchantable flour

Duer regretfully writes that some flour recently delivered from Robert, Jr.'s mills has been condemned as unmerchantable.

GLC03107.03492

to Henry Livingston (1753-1823) re: order for flour for the army

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.03757

[Record of John Langdon's accounts as Continental Navy agent, presented to the Board of the Treasury]

Duer, assistant secretary of the treasury department, transmits a copied "Statement of the accounts of John Langdon Esq. with the Secret and Commercial Committees of Congress." Conveys information pertaining to accounts kept and stores received for...

GLC06530

to Samuel Townsend

Continental Congressman Duer orders Captain Townsend to send an inventory of the effects of Israel Seaman and William Crocker to "the Commissioners appointed for his County." Townshend had apprehended Seaman and Crocker earlier by order of the...

GLC01099

to Henry Knox

Discusses supplies and mentions a visit.

GLC02437.01887

to Henry Knox

Writes that Knox's "note becomes due this day" but the man from the Bank has not "called with it, prevented I suppose by the weather- of course I can not send it to you till Monday- I now send you one hundred and Seventy seven Dollars in Bank Paper."...

GLC02437.03386

to Henry Knox

Appears to discuss a business transaction involving Knox. Notes he will send his acknowledgement on both sums [of money?]. Wishes him good health and contentment.

GLC02437.06310

[Statement concerning the Scioto Company in Ohio]

Discusses the problem with the Scotia company, the uncertainty of the emigrants who thought they had bought land, and the possibility of obtaining actual acreage versus merely a land option. Divided into eleven parts. Sewn binding.

GLC02437.10236

to Henry Knox

Reports that this letter will be delivered by Madame de la Val and Mr. de la Roche who will communicate provisional articles "I have Enterd into with them for commencing a French Establishment on the Lands we have purchased." Says the present state...

GLC02437.05134

[Statement of meeting proceedings]

Statement relating to a meeting held between Henry Knox, William Duer, William Constable, and Royal Flint, in July 1791. Declares that Knox testified to Samuel Ogden's relinquishment of his claims on certain townships in Maine. Outlines a...

GLC02437.05226

to Henry Knox

Discusses a conversation he had with General [Henry] Jackson about business, but feels he needs to speak to Knox directly about their arrangements. Considers their attempts to purchase land in Maine. Comments on his own character and the damaging...

GLC02437.05448

to Henry Knox

Money order to pay fifty dollars to a Peter Hasenfrats.

GLC02437.05455

[Copies of correspondence]

Copies of correspondences between William Duer, Henry Knox, Royal Flint, and Henry Jackson detailing the progress of their land deals and Duer's financial instability. Also includes details on the land agreements involving Madame de Leval and...

GLC02437.05607

to unknown

Discusses bonds and land speculation. Noted as a copy.

GLC02437.05701

[Proposition for Henry Knox]

Duer signs in text as "Mr. Duer." Presents a proposal for Knox to relinquish to Duer "his Right in the Pre Emption of Two million acres of land made of the State of Massachusetts of by Henry Jackson and Royal Flint..." Discusses in detail seven...

GLC02437.05524