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PETER WALDRON YATES - LETTER UNSIGNED 09/25/1790 WITH ABRAHAM LOTT - DOCUMENT 89946

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PETER WALDRON YATES
 Unsigned Manuscript Letter expressing impatience with a legal proceeding, originally written by the Revolutionary War veteran and Continental Congress delegate who opposed ratification of the US Constitution.
 Letter unsigned, a copy of a letter from "Peter W. Yates", 1 page, 6½x7¾. Albany, N.Y., 1790 September 25. Autograph endorsement on verso: "Abraham Lott". Addressed on integral leaf (unknown hand) to "Col. John Neilson, New Brunswick, favored by Major Bleaker". In full: "Your letter of the 20th August, I did not receive until this day. Your apology relative to the statement I received satisfies me so far as it respects yourself. If your Counsel in New York have not made out and sent up Venires with the Panels of the Struck Juries, you or they will be pleased immediately to furnish me with the Panels that the Sheriff may be enabled to summon the Jury in due time. Let your Counsel in New York also give notices of Trial to Mr. Varick. I shall send Notices to Mr. May. My Daughter Margaret, the Bearer hereof, will stand in need of about Thirty Pounds which you will be pleased to pay her on Sight and charge the same to Your most humble Servant". Autograph endorsement on verso, dated New York, 1790 September 29 by Abraham Lott, in full: "Dear Neilson - On the other side you have a copy of a Letter I this day received from Mr. Yates. All that he mentions about our approaching trials has been, and shall be done by me in time. But how are we to contrive to pay his Daughter the £30, therein mentioned? I have not the money, nor do I know where to get it; and yet it seems absolutely necessary his Daughter, & he, should not be disappointed. I must apply to you for help. Will you not be here on Friday next, at the Sale of Col. Martland's Claim? As I have not heard from my nephew on this day, agreeable to his promise to my Son on Sunday last, I do not expect to get the money from him. Should he not help me I do not know where to get it unless you can make out. I hope you received the letter I wrote you last Monday by the Post. It will be necessary, whether we prefer or not, that you or I go to Albany so as to be there by the 15th of October at farthest to Subpoena Witnesses etc, but who is to go? I confess the burden is almost too heavy for me, especially if you should not make your appearance at Albany sooner than you did last July term. Beside I have not yet inquired of our Lawyers here whether they will go up as usual without money, and give no leave to do that from [2 words illegible] advances to do it; and therefore expect you will be here soon to engage them with me to go once more upon good faith and confidence that we will imburse them. No time is to be lost about this business. With usual respects I remain your affectionate Uncle." PETER WALDRON YATES (1747-1826), an Albany lawyer, was a member of the City Council for 20 years before the Revolution. Appointed to the Committee of Correspondence in 1775, he resigned thereafter, expressing doubts about the direction of the Revolution. Nevertheless, he joined the county militia and fought against the British near Lake Champlain. He represented New York in the Continental Congress (1786), but opposed ratification of the US Constitution. Yates became one of Albany's wealthiest citizens, serving for a time as a state legislator and a judge. Colonel JOHN NIELSEN (1745-1833) was deputy commander of New Jersey's Second Middlesex Regiment during the Revolution. George Washington's papers contain several letters to Nielsen requesting intelligence on British force deployments near New York. Nielsen, later deputy quartermaster of New Jersey, gave the first reading of the Declaration of Independence to New Brunswick residents on July 9, 1776. ABRAHAM LOTT merits further research, as his was a common name in the New York area in this period. This may have been the Abraham Lott (1722-1794) who served as Treasurer of the Colony of New York (1767-1776) and as a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce after the British evacuation (1784). Lightly soiled. Paper separation at mailing folds. Blank section of integral leaf missing. Three-fourth-inch hole where seal was removed, not at text. Unusually clear text for a letter of this date.

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PETER WALDRON YATES

Died: March 9, 1826


ABRAHAM LOTT
Born: 1722
Died: 1794


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