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28 March 1689

Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724

Document signed

Title: [Land grant for Joseph Yetts].

Countersigned by Robert Livingston. Schuyler and Livingston had procured the charter for the city in 1686. Livingston was Schuyler's brother-in-law. Signed by Peter Schuyler as mayor of Albany. Features paper seal.

GLC02542.02

1707/08/16

Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724

Manuscript document

Title: Indenture between Peter Schuyler and his brother

Legal document that attests to and explains a financial indenture made between Peter Schuyler and his brother. Peter is obliged to make payments to the genreal estate of his brother. The document contains seven signatures at the bottom, including [Brant] Schulyer, Johannes Schuyler, G[illegible] van Cortlandt, R Livingston, Alida Livingston, John Collins, and Margaret Collins.

GLC03107.00794

1688/12/06

Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724

Manuscript document signed

Title: Minutes of Albany Council meeting

Livingston had applied to the Town Council of Albany for an increase in salary from £15 to £20, because the county of Albany, which had previously allotted Livingston £5, had discontinued this practice. However, the Council denied the request, claiming the burden of mounting debts.

GLC03107.00158

1690/04/20

Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724

Manuscript document signed

Title: Bond [in Dutch]

GLC03107.00167

1691/08/05

Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: [in Dutch]

Docketed on verso.

GLC03107.00198

1707/03/28

Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724

Letter

Title: to Lord Cornbury

Peter Schuyler writes that he has received a message from Coll. Partridge that Indians have caused some destruction in Deerfield in New England. He then explains what detachments he has sent to the frontiers for security purposes. Letter marked as a copy.

GLC03107.02073

1704/05/20

Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724

Letter

Title: to Lord Cornbury re: meeting at Onondaga

Item 1: 1p. + docket. Schuyler enclosed a letter from the interpreter at Onondaga, and directs Cornbury's attention to the gifts presented to the Indians by Canada. He also inquires about the payment of the expenses accrued on his journey to Onondaga. Item 2: letter from Laurence Claese to the Gentlemen of Albany; 20 May 1704; Onondaga, [N.Y.],;1p. Claese states that the Indians are on their guard against the Indians of Canada, and also that he has forwarded some letters to Peter Schuyler from an English minister from Deerfield.

GLC03107.02074

1712/02/10

Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724

Letter signed

Title: to the Commissioners for regulating the palatine affairs re: approaching enemy

Schuyler writes of news that the enemy is approaching, and requests that the Commissioners send their palatines to Albany with the greatest speed and urgency. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02109

1720/09/01

Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724

Manuscript document

Title: Propositions to the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Cayugas [delivered]

Schuyler proposes to renew the covenant chain on behalf of all of the King's colonies, and regrets the absence of the Senecas, who have entered into an agreement with the French. The 4 Nations are asked ot make peace with all English allies, and are commended for resisting French efforts to build a settlement at Onjagore.

GLC03107.02139

1690/03/03

Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724

Manuscript document

Title: "Examination of three french Prisoners taken by the Maquase & brought . . .

. . . to Shinnechtady, who were Examined by Pr. Schuyler May[or] of the Citty of Albany." The Canadian prisoners state that they were under orders to attack Schenechtady and kill as many as they could, and then give an account of how they advanced upon the town. They also divulge information regarding the building of fortifications in Canada, and the amount of ammunition and soldiers currently available to the Canadian Governor.

GLC03107.02026