Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 1286
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE March 28, 1829
AUTHOR J. L. Graham
RECIPIENT General Philip Van Cortlandt
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE his father Lt .Gov Pierre Van Cortlandt, his father’s Aunt “Mrs Ann
Depeyster”, her heirs or devisees, [Doc’t?] Beekman,
PLACES New York City, corner of North + Chrystie streets, Registers office,
Cortlandt Street, the Bowery,
KEYWORDS property dispute, lots in the Bowery at North and Chrystie Streets
New York. March 28h . 1829
Respected Sir,
I received Your favour of the / 10h instant in answer to mine, soliciting infor - / mation from You, in relation to the title of / some property on the corner of North + Chrystie / Streets _ In Your letter, you stated that Your / father derived his title to that property by will / from his Aunt, Mrs Ann Depeyster, about the / Year 1774 __ Since the receipt of Your letter / I have examined the will, and am sorry / that to say, that it does not afford me / all the information I desire on the subject, / which in as much as, I am again compel - / led to trouble You _
By the Will, it appears / that Mrs Depeyster, desired ?? the Mrs / Depey / [desired] the one third part of her / Real Estate to Your late Honored Father, / without designating, in particular, what / Real Estate it was __ The question was
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therefore very naturally presented [Of] / what Real Estate did she [di sized?] and / how was the partition of the same made / between the devisees under her will _ / For my own satisfaction, on these points / I examined, in the Registers office, but / was did not find upon record any con - / veyance to Mrs Depeyster of the property / in question _ Neither could I find any / Deed of partition or record dividing the / property between her [^ heirs or] devisees __ This, no / doubt, was all done but the deeds have / been omitted to be recorded, which / causes the present embaraf embarres - / ment – I called up [Doc’t?] Beekman / in Cortlandt Street, in hopes, he might / be able to give me some information on / the [suget], as he was the gentleman who / originally requ–? [requested?] the sale / of the lots, but he could not _ he, however, / suggested to me the probability of Your / having among Your old title papers / the deeds relating to the property –
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?quite? and [??] recommended my writing / You, [on this?] in order to get You to make / a [Sc??t] for them __
I am really sorry to / be so troublesome and I can afsure / you, that nothing but absolute necefsity / inability to derive the information from / any other quarter, compels induces – me to / call upon You __
If your will, therefore, have / the goodnefs to examine among Your papers _1st [? -illegible, wax seal, faint] / [page torn for seal] the deed of the property in question to M- [illegible - wax seal] / Depeyster _ 2nd for the deed of partition / thereof between her heirs and [^ or] devisees and / should You find them to [apprize?] me of the / fact so that I may have the opportunity / of seeing them, You will [??] a very / p-[??] [of] his so he has the / honor of subscribing himself
Your Obd’t Sv,
J. L. Graham
New York
Gen’l Van Cortlandt
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[ADDRESS]
GEn’l Philip Van Cortlandt
Cortlandt Town
New York
[POSTAGE STAMP 1 - red ink]
PAID
[POSTMARK - red ink]
[10]
[POSTAGE STAMP 2 - red ink, circle]
NEW YORK
MAR 28
[LABEL - REVERSE]
J. L. Graham
March. 26. 1829
about the lots in / the BoweryTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
