testimonies

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Bond of Isaac Bush, James Moger, and Abel Moger, all of Greenwich, Conn., to John Lloyd, Stamford, for £300 after Bush and the Mogers having trespassed at Queen's Village by digging clams, repairing a house, and hunting for which they must pay three Spanish milled dollars; witnessed by Samuel Jarvis and Susanah Roe.

Bond of Josiah Reynolds, William Marshall, Stephen Bush, and Thomas Johnson, all of Greenwich, Conn., to John Lloyd, Stamford, for £200 after Reynolds, Marshall, Bush, and Johnson having trespassed at Queen's Village by digging clams and starting a fire, the trespass being acknowledged on verso; witnessed by William Haviland and Thomas Barker. Damaged and repaired with loss to a few names in signature area.

Statement of Thomas Owen, that he witnessed an February 20, 1666 agreement between John Richbell and Nathaniel Sylvester and Latimer Sampson that Richbell will have the patent for Lloyd Neck changed to have Sylvester and Sampson named as owners.

Attestation of Thomas Danforth, Cambridge, Mass., that Nicholas Davison, administrator of the estate of Samuel Andrews, submitted an inventory of the estate to the County Court held at Cambridge, said inventory including Andrews's holdings at Lloyd Neck and Oyster Bay; entered at the Record Office, New York, April 16, 1668, by Matthias Nicholls, secretary.

Henry Townsend's statement and Peter Stuyvesant's judgement fining Townsend 25 Flanders pounds and threatening banishment if Townsend continues holding Quaker meetings.

19th century transcription of the testimonies of Timothy Halstead and Samuel Denton, both of Hempstead, and Josiah Sutton, Oyster Bay, in connection with a lawsuit over the 1664 purchase of land in the area of Elizabeth, N.J. known as Achter Kol by a group from Long Island organized by Daniel Denton, John Bayles, and Luke Norton; sworn November 17, 1685 before Elias Doughty and Richard Cornell, justices; December 3, 1685 before Richard Cornell, justice; and March 31, 1686 before John Townsend, Senr., justice of the peace.

The collection includes three volumes, correspondence, and documents, 1768-1803, related to English abolitionist and reformer Granville Sharp (1735-1813). The first volume contains copies of letters and related documents, 1768-1773, sent to Granville Sharp, transcribed in his own handwriting and concerning such matters as slavery, the slave trade, its evils, legal and social aspects, etc. It includes letters from Joseph Banks, Anthony Benezet, William Blackstone, Jacob Bryant, John Fothergill, Francis Hargrave, Arthur Lee, Michael Lort, and Benjamin Rush.

Two-page printed advertisement by Mathew Carey of Philadelphia, promoting this written testimony on the Colonization Society and its activities in Liberia.

Drafts of Major John Coffin's statements in reply to the defense of Lieutenant-Colonel George Campbell at Campbell's court martial. Major John Coffin and Lieutenant-Colonel George Campbell both served in the loyalist Kings American Regiment during the Revolutionary War. Campbell was very unpopular among his fellow officers in the regiment, and was court martialed in the summer of 1783. Among the charges levelled against him was unfair treatment of fellow officer Abraham de Peyster, who Campbell had had arrested and tried on a variety of charges earlier that year.