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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1009

Dutchess County; Fishkill Landing; Verplanck, Daniel Crommelin; De Wint (de Windt), John Peter and Caroline Amelia; Slavery. John Peter de Wint (1786-1870) was a wealthy entrepreneur (with much of his wealth coming from the Caribbean trade, though some also from the Hudson River trade) and community benefactor of Fishkill Landing; his wife Caroline Amelia née Smith was the niece of John Quincy Adams. Autograph Document Signed "John P. De Wint", Caroline Amelia de Wint" below and "Daniel C. Verplanck". Indenture between the De Wints and William Runnels for a lot of land in Fishkill Landing. One page, folio, July 1, 1824. The De Wints sign at the bottom right, a "waffle iron" paper seal by each name, at bottom left is the signature of Peter C. de Wint. In eleven lines on verso, Daniel C. Verplanck certifies that the de Wints appeared before him in his capacity as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Dutchess County, and signs below. Beneath this is affixed a clipping of an "act for the relief of William Reynolds...a free colored man, his heirs...to certain lands in the town of Fishkill… purchased and now occupied by him", passed January 23, 1838, "John A. Dix, Secretary of State". Reynolds property may be related to the lot in the document here. Fishkill Landing today is the City of Beacon. Rents in the centerfold, Very Good.

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