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"To Trouble & Expence against Rioters at Woodstock £1… To my Trouble & Expence to bring Actions agst the Collectors of Excise pr order of Assembly, £3.10" JEDEDIAH ELDERKIN.
Autograph Document Signed ("Jeda Elderkin"), Hartford, November 9, 1768, being an accounting of monies owed to and collected by Elderkin in Connecticut for services rendered as King's attorney from December 1754 to 1766. 2 pp., recto and verso, double-folio.
Each county court appointed a king's attorney mostly paid by fees collected from losing parties. This balance sheet records charges and reimbursements, including expenses against rioters in Woodstock, Ct on September 4, 1758, and suing Stamp Act excise collectors in 1765. Other entries include "To a Bill of Cost agst Peter Negroe £18.18.5… To Cost agst Mary an Indn
Woman. £16.2.0… To Cost agst Joseph Benjamin £17.10.-… To Cost agst a Mulatto £24… 1758 … To Expence in Prosecuting Capt Benjn Lee pr ordr of Assembly who Dyed Insolvent…"

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"I had hoped you were snugly & permanently located on the lung healing slopes of the Hudson at West Point. You will now be much nearer to the metropolis…" JOHN ERICSSON.
Autograph Letter Signed, to Unknown Recipient, September 29, 1860. 2 pp.
Complete Transcript

Sept. 29 / 60

My Dear Sir

Mr Mulford will send you word the moment he is ready with the [hance?]. The magnitude of the work to be done is not great, but the nature of it very troublesome as the place is very cramped under the carriage where the new [Keys?] have to be applied.

I regret to hear that you are again changing your quarters, I had hoped you were snugly & permanently located on the lung healing slopes of the Hudson at West Point. You will now be much nearer to the metropolis I think.

I have letters from Sweden, from engineer Wenstrom and am delighted to find that no trouble at all is experienced with the caloric engines which, by the way, are now being made in Germany to… Read More

Washington, D.C., 1880. No binding. Fine. Autograph Letter Signed, to William A. Seaver, Washington, DC, October 15, 1880. 2 pp., 4 7/8 x 8 in. Complete TranscriptDEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTONOct. 15. 1880My dear Mr. Seaver,Your very kind note and the menu you give of the company makes it certain that I will drive with you on Thursday if I stay on after my speech at Bklyn Wednesday night.The Bishops I think should be au gratin and the laymen chilled. Yours very truly Wm M. EvartsWm A. Seaver NyHistorical BackgroundThe General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church met in New York City from October 6 to October 27, 1880. Seaver invited Evarts to attend. Evarts was already planning to be in New York that week. On Wednesday, October 20, 1880, he gave an address to the Brooklyn Young Men's Republican Club regarding ""the Southern question,"" the tariff, and labor problems. He supported the presidential candidacy of Republican James A. Garfield over Democrat Winfield S. Hancock as a successor… Read More