MEMORANDUM FOR COL. HAMILTON RESPECTING A SUIT COMMENCED BY JOHN ROSEVELT FOR BACK RENTS AGAINST ROBERT DUNBAR
Published by New York, 1784
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Seller: David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.David M. Lesser, ABAA
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Folio sheet, folded to [4] pages. Written in ink manuscript on first page; interior pages blank; docketed on final page: "A.H. Lawpapers - not known to be of use." With the following, perhaps in Hamilton's handwriting, "Case | Robert Dunbar | Adv. | John Rosevelt." Old folds, Very Good. "On the 23d Decr. 1779 Robt Dunbar possessed two small front rooms & a cellar in Mr. David Sproat's House & remained from that time in possession of them untill the 25th Novr. 1783. Mr. Sproat was Comm. for British Navy prisoners & the House was alloted him in Septr. 1779 for his quarters by the Commander of the City. Mr. Sproat made several repairs on the House, it barely being habitable when he got possession of it. R. Dunbar was also at a considerable expense in repairing the small part of the House he occupied & in building a large Store House which he delivered on the 25th Nov. in good order to John Rosevelt. The House was rented by the Vestry before Mr. Sproat had possession of it at Ninety Pounds New York Curcy a Year, & at no period before the War would it have rented for a greater sum allowing it to have been in good repair." The American Philosophical Society's Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution has a closely related, 1787 item, No. 456: "Plea in the lawsuit of John Roosevelt, Jacobus Bogert, and Isaac Roosevelt, executors of Jacobus Roosevelt vs. Robert Dunbar." Alexander Hamilton represented Dunbar.…
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