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VARICK, RICHARD.Two Documents Signed, “Rich’dVarick,” as Mayor of New
York City. The first, to the NY State Legislature, a petition of the Mayor Aldermen and
Commonalty of NY, appealing for help with meeting the rising cost of maintaining the
city’s alms house, enclosing a report [see second document]. Countersigned by Robert
Benson. 1
1
/
4
pages, tall 4to, with integral blank; minor bleed-through affecting first lines of
text, small holes at intersections, short closed separations at folds. The second, partly-
printed, estimating the costs and condition of the alms house. 1 page, folio; backed, minor
scattered chipping at edges, toning at folds and along right edge. (MRS)
NewYork, 15 January 1798
[300/400]
The report: “. . .With respect to the number of paupers under our care—we have now on our
books 740 . . . consisting of 404 adults, and 336 children, mostly under nine years of age.—It
is remarkable, that of the above number of adults, only 96 of them were born in this City and
County. . . .”
DEED FOR LAND
INVERMONT
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(VERMONT.) ALLEN,
ETHAN. Partly-printed Document
Signed, transferring 450 acres in
the township of Georgia, Province
of New Hampshire [VT], to Israel
Dickinson. Additionally signed by
his brother Levi Allen. 1 page, tall
4to; silked on recto and verso,
holes at fold intersections with
moderate loss repaired with tissue
verso, docketing verso, vertical
fold through initial “E” of signa-
ture with minor loss. (MRS)
Np, 18 August 1774
[3,000/4,000]
“
. . . [F]our hundred and fifty acres of
land lying and being in the Township
of Georgia, which Town was granted
under the Great Seal of the Province
of New-Hampshire and is now sup-
posed to be in the province of
New-York on the East Side lake
Champlain . . . .”
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