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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1015

Crommelin, Robert (1717-1791). Lot: 1) Indenture between Harmanus Schuyler Esquire High Sheriff of the County of Albany and Robert Crommelin; a release of land. Two pages, 18 ½ x 13 ½ ", Oct. 10, 1770. Signed by Schuyler on bottom fold by red wax seal. Harmanus Schuyler was involved in the fur trade, then was a silversmith, constable and firemaster in Albany. He served as Sheriff from 1761 to 1770. In 1766, he led a large force of deputies to suppress tenant rioters in Livingston Manor; 2) Bond of James Parkinson "of Newbern No. Carolina but now in New York" to Robert Crommelin for the sum of "Three hundred pounds three Shillings & Six pence lawful money of New York". One page, folio, printed and ink, June 10, 1757. Signed by Parkinson below. Notation of payments inked on verso, inked note on folded verso segment that this is a "Copy of James Parkinson Bond…original Sent to Wm Heritage Esqr attorn. At law in Newbern North Carolina"; 3) Bond for Thomas Allen of New London, CT to Robert Crommelin of the sum of "Nine Hundred & Eighty Six pounds one Shilling & four pence. One page on folio, May 14, 1761. Signed by Allen and others below. Notation on top segment of inside page that "The annexed Bond is taken for acct …Messrs Johannes De Ween Dewitt & Co, Merchant in Amsterdam…For Account of Mr. Alexdr Smith of Amsterdam"; 4) Copy of a receipt given Mr. Thomas Allen of New London for his bond of 493 Pounds made in May, 1761 signed "Rob Crommelin". Thomas Allen, a merchant of New London and Newport, suffered large losses in the West Indies during the Seven Years War. His creditors, grown impatient, seized his shop inventory for auction; the beleaguered Allen then assigned some of his real estate to trustees for NY creditors and shut himself up in his home to avoid process.; 5) Bond of Benjamin Blagge to Robert Crommelin for the sum of "Fifty Two pounds & Eleven Shillings & Eight pence Current money of the province of New York". One page on folded folio, March 5, 1764; 6&7) Printed Indentures between Robert Crommelin and Rudolph Hoffer of Bethlehem in Hunterdon County, NJ for a tract of land in Bethlehem township, the rent being Four Pounds per annum. Two copies, both 8 x 13", March 25, 1772; 8) 8-page Estate Ledger, Flushing, June 25th, 1791. Six of the pages being a "Vendue List of Sundry Articels belonging To the Estate of Robert Crommelin" - lots, farm implements, cows, sows, fields of vegetables and fruits, etc. One page, "A list of the Purchases at the Vendue held the 25th June 1791 of sundry articles.." with the buyers in alphabetical order; and one page, a 1746 Memorandum in Crommelin's hand regarding the improper positioning of the chimney which poses a fire threat unless coal is used, how to make "Good Blacking for Shoes" and "The Age of my Negroes born in ye Family". Some small tears and splits, otherwise quite intact; 9) Correspondence from Samuel Leake, to Daniel Ludlow, Esquire, an executor "of Robert Crommelin deceased. One and one half pages, Trenton, NJ, May 19, 1808; also 10) a draught of a trust of land in Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon Co., NJ. Generally well-preserved. [10]

Estimate
$450 to $800