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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1021

Herkimer & Oneida Counties; Schuyler Patent; Schuyler, Peter David (Davitse). Indenture between "Peter David Schuyler of Canajoharie in the County of Albany Yeoman…and James McNutt of the Town of Schenectady…Merchant". 2 pages, 16 ¾ x 20 ¾", August 3, 1763. "For and in Consideration of the sum of" 443 Pounds 10 Shillings and 10 Pence, Schuyler confers four small tracts of land, being part of the Schuyler Patent (1755) of 43,000 acres. Signed at bottom of the second page "Peter D. Schuyler", next to affixed cracked red wax seal; witnessed at bottom left by Chris. Gates and John Peeck. Incumbrance notation made and signed by Schuyler on verso, along with memorandum signed by "Jacob C. Ten Eyck" and recorder's notation. 'Diamond' fold splits. Accompanied by four-page folio copy of the indenture, with a further memorandum that "Lott No. 17 + 31 was Conveyed to Jon. Dunlop, But the other Two Lotts No 51 + 63 was taken…& Conveyed by the Sherif to Robert Crommelin of New York for about" 400 pounds. Very Good to Fine. [2]

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