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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1008

Verplanck, Samuel (1739-1820). Lot: 1) "Inventory of Landed Property belonging to Saml. Verplanck late of the City of New York Now a resident in Fishkill Town, Dutchess County…" 2 pages, folio, listing Samuel's many properties in the town of Fishkill, "Mountain Lott on the road to Franklin Town", property in Brinckerhoff, properties in the town of Poughkeepsie, and in the Wawayanda, Kayaderosseras, and Hardenbergh Patents; 2) Business letter, "Amsterdam, 29th Nov. 1757", 4 pages (7 3/8 x 8 ½"), for Samuel Verplanck listing accounts paid, charges and notations of drafts. Diagonal crease; 3) "Mr. Samuel Verplanck's Account of Bonds", 1767-1771; 4) Indenture between "Samuel Verplanck... residing in the Rumbout [sic] Precinct of Dutchess County…and John Every of Rumbout [sic]…husbandman" for a farm lease in Dutchess County. Two and one half pages, 12 2/3 x 14 2/3", Nov. 2, 1778. Signed "John Every", beside red wax seal, at the end. Lease notations on verso, one signed "Gulian Verplanck" "Gulian Ludlow" and "Ralph Philipse" with paper seal. Some minor crease rents; 5) Receipt dated April 24, 1790 showing Samuel Verplanck as having paid his account (incurred in 1788?) to a Mr. Farmer in full; 6) Document appointing his [estranged] wife Judith to "maintain and prosecute her own Right and Interest in the Estate of her father Daniel Crommelin deceased". 2 2/3 pages, folio. Signed at the bottom of the 2nd page "Saml: Verplanck" with his red wax seal beside, adjacent is the notation of Verplanck's appearance on May 20, 1789, before Abraham Schenck, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Dutchess, Schenck's signature below; 7) Itemized receipt signed "Bartho. Doughty", August 17th, 1778 for Eleven Hundred and Fifty Pounds from Mrs. Judith Verplanck for items to be delivered to "Abraham Ogden Esq. at Morris Town". Abraham Ogden, a patriot, practiced law at Morristown, NJ. He later served as US Attorney for the District of NJ and negotiated the Treaty of New York in 1796. Less than a year after this receipt, Bartholomew Doughty, a loyalist, served as Quartermaster in the 1st Battalion of the New Jersey Volunteers (a loyalist unit); 8) Receipt signed by "Wm.. Walton" for One Hundred and Twenty One Pounds Eleven Shillings & 6d Jersey Money from John E. Borman for Samuel Verplanck. William Walton was the father of Daniel C. Verplanck's second wife Ann Walton; 9) Document giving Daniel C. Verplanck power of attorney for his father, Samuel. One page, folio. Signed "Samuel Verplanck" at bottom by affixed paper seal; 10) Diploma, May 18, 1827, admitting a different Samuel Verplanck as Counsellor in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Paper seal on red ribbon affixed. Signed "John Savage". Savage was the Chief Justice of the NY Supreme Court (1823-1837). He was later appointed Treasurer of the United States but declined. The ink of the signature is weakening but clear; 11) 3 ¼ page letter, Paris, Dec. 24, 1831, related to the Verplancks. All of the items are well preserved and Fine. [11]

Estimate
$400 to $600