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CATALOG NUMBER S 985 a & b
OBJECT NAME [copy?] petition to convey inheritance to minor
DATE [date of original will: June 20, 1803]
AUTHOR [Philip Jeremiah Schuyler?]
RECIPIENT
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Chancellor John Lansing Jr., Stephen Van Renssalear, Philip
Schuyler (grandson), Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, Rensselaer
Schuyler, Stephen Van Rensselaer (grandson), Angelica Schuyler
Church, John Barker Church, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Cornelia Schuyler Morton, Washington Morton, Catharine Schuyler Malcolm, Samuel B Malcolm, Elijah Andersen, John McCready, Isaac Allen, Rowland Stafford Jr.,
PLACES lot No. 9, Springfield patent, Otsego, Lot No. 9 Plattsburgh, Clinton
county,
KEYWORDS death of General Philip John Schuyler, will and inheritance,
children and grandchildren, death of Cornelia Lynch Schuyler Morton, intestate, conflict of inheritance between adult children of General Philip John Schuyler,
In the matter of
To the Honourable John Lansing / Junr Esqr Chanceller of the State / of New York
The petition of Stephen Van Rensselaer the / guardian of Philip Schuyler an infant under / the age of twenty one years of +c
guardian of
Respectfully [shewith?]
That Ph. Schuyler late of the city / of Albany Esqr dec’d duly made on a? Above / the
20 day of June [?] 1803 in due form / of law made & published his last will & testa- / -ment in writing bearing date the 20 day / of June 1803 and died withou wherein after / devising certain specific portions of his real / estate he devised all the rest residue + / remainder of his real [^estate] whether in pofsefsion / remainder or reversion or wheresoever / situate unto his grandson Ph. Schuyler his / sons Ph. J Schuyler & Rensselaer Schuyler his / grandson Stephen Van Rensselaer and his / daughters Angelica the wife of John Barker / Church, Elizabeth the widow & Relict of Alex- / -ander Hamilton Cornelia the wife of Washington /
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Morton and Catharine the wife of Sam’l / B Malcom to them their respective heirs / and afsigns as tenants in [common?] in [few?] / simple and died [^on or abt the 18 Nov 1804] without having revoked / or altered his said will.__ That the said / Testator [^by a contract in writing and in his hand] be sold to Elijah Andersen / 100 Ac on the w off of the / side of lot No 9 in the patent called commonly called Springfield patent in the County of Otsego for $300 of the / money of acct of the United States a part / of which consideration money was paid / to the Testator in his life time and the / remainder [^hath been paid] to his Executors since his death / That the said Testator by another contract / in writing under his hand sold to John / McCreedy Lot No 9 in Plattsburgh in / the county of Clinton [only?] 200 Ac of land / for $800 of the money of acct aforesaid / a part of which consideration money was / also paid to the Testator in his life and / the remainder [^hath been paid] to his Ex’rs since his death / which last mentioned contract has been [^duly] afsign- / -ed by the said John McCready to Isaac / Allen & Rowland Stafford Junr That the / legal estate in the lan said parcels of / land [^so sold/told?] [willed] in the devises of the said Ph. / Schuyler above named in trust for the / purchasers thereof respectively who having /
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paid the purchase money are / respectively entitled to a conveyance / of the legal estate That the said / Philip Schuyler [^as one of the said devisees] stands [seised?] [^in trust as[?of]^ of one / undivided eighth part of [said] estate / but by reason of his infancy cannot / convey the same without the direction/ of your Honor.
That the said Cornelia Morton / in her life as one as another of the devisees / afy ala?
stood [seised] [^in trust as [of?] of one undivided / eighth part of such estate and being / so [seised] in trust departed this life / [^intestate] on or about the [ ] day of / [ ] 180[ ] leaving the /
her children + heirs at law to whom / such estate in trust as [afg?] hath descen- / -ded but they by reason of their in- / -fancy cannot convey the same without / the direction of your Honor /
Your petitioners herefore / pray that an order may be / made by your Honor direc
Autho- / -rizing and directing [^the infants above named to] a convey - / anes + afsur any of [^their respective estates in] the said / parcels of land + the respec ly proper + apt descriptions ?? to purchasers respectively ? to the respectively to [him?] [J??] Elijah /
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Anderson and to the said / Isaac Allen & Rowland Stafford / Junr in such manner as to / your Honor shall seem most? / proper or for such other / order as to your Honor shall / seem meet. /
And your petitioners shall [ever pray?] + c
[LABEL]
Dfr Petition for minor / to convey to Elijah / Anderson +a-[b?]
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
