Macomb, Alexander, 1748-1831 [Declaration of trust related to a land sale]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03890 Author/Creator: Macomb, Alexander, 1748-1831 Place Written: New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 10 June 1788 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 31.2 x 19.8 cm. Order a Copy
Countersigned by Isaac Stoughtenburgh at a June 1787 public auction at the Merchants Coffee House in New York City and Daniel McKinnen. Verifies the sale of ten townships of land on the southeast side of the St. Lawrence River. Macomb attests that these townships were "sold to divers persons for and in behalf of the following Proprietors..." Lists the proprietors as Philip Schuyler, Henry Knox, Alexander Hamilton, John Taylor, John DeLancey, and Thomas Marston. Attests that he holds the lands in trust for them.
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