Image Text 2 Items Samuel Clowes, III indenture, March 24, 1752. Indenture from Samuel Clowes, III, to Valentine Hewlett Peters, for the sale of property in Hempstead to Peters; witnessed by Timothy Clowes and Samuel Carman. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Luke Eldert indenture, February 4, 1752. Indenture from Luke Eldert to Eldred Lucas, for the sale of two lots of meadowland at Hungry Harbor (near Woodmere, N.Y.) to Lucas; witnessed by Jan Stevenson and Jonas Flower. View Item
Text Abraham and Cornelia Southard indenture, December 21, 1750, leaf [1], verso, with docket title. View Item
Image Text 4 Items Abraham and Cornelia Southard indenture, December 21, 1750. Indenture from Abraham and Cornelia Southard to Valentine Hewlett Peters, for the sale of property at Coe's Neck (Freeport, N.Y.) to Peters; witnessed by Thomas Cornell, Joseph Thuston, Richard Barnes, and Josiah Rainer; with an addendum stipulating that Benjamin Smith, owner of an adjoining property will have the right to pass through the property. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Hannah Burleigh and Patrick Mott indenture, July 20, 1750. Indenture from Hannah Burleigh and Patrick Mott, executors of the estate of Benjamin Burleigh, to Valentine Hewlett Peters, for the sale of property of the estate of Benjamin Burleigh to Peters; witnessed by Adam Lawrence and Henry Mott. View Item
Image Text 1 Items James and John Searing indenture, January 10, 1741/2. Indenture from James and John Searing to Mary Peters, widow of Dr. Charles Peters, for the sale of property to her; witnessed by Samuel Willis, Timothy Halstead, and Charles Peters [Jr.] View Item
Image Collection 38 Items Hempstead (N.Y.) collection, 1666-1870 (bulk 1727-1782) Thirty-eight items, mostly deeds and indentures for land in Hempstead, including a handful of receipts and invitations, and a set of documents related to the building of a road in Far Rockaway in 1870. View Collection
Image Collection 10 Items New-York Manumission Society records, 1785-1849 New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves (1785-1849), commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of enslaved people in New York State. While this was the publicly stated goal, numerous members still enslaved people in their own households, including John Jay and Rufus King. View Collection
Text Volume 3, Indentures, 1809-1829. Register of manumissions and indentures, page [106]-[107] View Item
Text Volume 3, Indentures, 1809-1829. Register of manumissions and indentures, page [134]-[135] View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Indenture of Negro Joseph] Deed of indenture for "Negro Joseph" to John Delaval of Philadelphia, who will be manumitted after a term of fourteen years. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Indenture of a Negro boy named Primus] Deed of indenture for "a Negro boy named Primus" for a term of three years to Walter Butler, who received the slave from his cousins John and Myndert Wempel. View Item
Text This indenture witnesseth, that [blank] hath put [blank]self, and by these presents doth voluntarily, and of h[blank] own free will and accord [blank] put and bind h[blank]self apprentice to [blank] to learn the art, trade or mistery [blank] after the man Dated: ... the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty [blank]- and the [blank] year of American independence. Indenture form. View Item
Image Collection 102 Items Richard Varick papers, 1743-1871 (bulk 1775-1830). Series III: Legal Documents, 1743-1850. This series contains a variety of legal documents arising from Varick's military, legal and political careers. These include court papers and documents from the investigation into Varick after Benedict Arnold's defection. The series also contains document pertaining to Varick's personal and family estate, including papers relating to the settlement of the estate of Derick Dey, Varick's maternal grandfather; the affairs of other members of the Dey family; and indentures. bonds, deeds, and mortgages held by Varick. View Collection
Image Collection 7 Items Richard Varick papers, 1743-1871 (bulk 1775-1830) Richard Varick, born in New Jersey, 1753, served as Captain, deputy muster-master-general, and George Washington's secretary during the Revolutionary war. He was appointed one of the first mayors of New York and served from 1789-1801. He died in 1831. His papers pertain to a variety of subjects, including Varick's command of a company in Alexander McDougall's battalion at Ticonderoga and in Canada during 1775; his service on courts-martial in 1775; problems of the bateau service in northern New York State in 1776; his position as secretary to Gen. View Collection