Letter

Archive

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King Manor Museum

Name/Title

Letter

Entry/Object ID

2021.1.108

Scope and Content

Letter from John A. King to Stephen Van Renssdell (?) Esq., in Albany, dated December 24, 1844, written from 28 Barclay Street, New York. Contents relate meeting, held at City Hotel, of "about twenty gentlemen" owning land in Schoharie, Delaware, Otsego, Ulster, Greene, Sullivan and Columbia counties, and their difficulties in collecting rents and other fees owed them by lessors and tenants. Several handwritten notes added by subsequent owners of letter: "94 years old," "Loaned by John J. Bliss, Jamaica, NY," "Papers pertaining to John A. King," "x2003.085"

Collection

King Manor Historical Documents Collection

Provenance

Notes

Custodial History: Archival records were created by King Manor Museum for institutional and research purposes.