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Deed – Secretary of State, New York. Deed Book 20, pgs 504 To all to whom these presents shall come or may in any wise
concern We Archibald McKean, William & Thomas Ash, Joshua
Jones, John Cramond, James Montaudevert, Thomas Clark & Co., William &
Ambrose Sadlier, Alexr Campbell, William Maxwell, John Delafield,
John Taylor, John Arthur, William, Vanderlocht, Hay Stevenson & Co., Francis
Brice, Robert Bowne & John Parkinson, Saltonstall & Mumford, Michael
Mudge, Hercule Mulligan, Richard Sharpe, Brothers Coster & Co., Herring
& Jones, James Scott & Co., Timothy Wood, Coll McGregor, Lee &
Ferguson, Christian Bachr, Isaac Moses & Co., Thomas Sanders, Bradford &
McEwin, Thomas Wilson & Co., Daniel Bowie, Scriba Schroppel & Starman,
Richard Dunning, Johnston & Ogden, Abijah Hammond, Captain Leyburn, Ludlow
& Goold, Carliffe Pollock, Simon Schermerhorn, Robert Bruce, John Brower,
George Colles, Dunlap & Vanvostrant, William Livingston, Peter Schermerhorn,
John Lamb, John Wilkes, William Thomas, Edmund Seaman, John Stites,
Abraham Lott and William Sheddon Messr’s Merryman and Sluby of Baltimore in the State of
Maryland, Henry Palmer, James Phillips Wilson of the Island of Grenada, Messrs
Sathewarth & Penny of the Island of St. Kitts, Patrick Wilson, John Discomp
of the Island of St. Martins, and Adam Lightbody & Co., Walker Graham, Hill
& Monteith, William Henry & Co., John McArthur, Andrew McKinzie, Andrew
Wilson, James Campbell, James Hill, and John Shadden of Great Britain Send
greeting Whereas Robert Wilson of the said City of New York Merchant
stands indebted to us his creditors in divers sums of money which at present by
reason of bad debts losses and disappointments in trade he is unable to pay and
discharge And the said Robert Wilson having assigned over all his
goods wares merchandizes monies chattels vessels furniture and effects together
with all such debts dues credits and demands of what nature or kind soever which
are due owing payable or belonging to him the said Robert Wilson (as specified
in a schedule annexed to the said assignment) unto Mr. William Shadden of the
House of Shadden Patrick & Co., Isaac Gouveneur Junior of the House of
Curson & Gouverneur and Mr. Robert Bowne all of the said City of New York
Merchants, whom we the said creditors have and do hereby also further appoint as
trustees for the general benefit of such of the said creditors as shall sign
seal and execute this composition in proportion to our several and respective
demands In consideration whereof we the said creditors have agreed to give him a
full discharge for and on account of our several and respective demands Now therefore know ye that we the said creditors for and in
consideration of the premises, and also of the further sum of five shillings
lawful money of the State of New York to us in hand paid by the said Robert
Wilson at and before the ensealing and delivery of these presents receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged have remised, released or exonerated and forever
discharged and by these presents do remise release exonerate and forever
discharge the said Robert Wilson his heirs executors and administrators of and
from all and every debt due duty or demand which we or either of us have or may
or can have respectively against the said Robert Wilson for any debt contract or
demand whatever now due or demand which we or either of us have or may or can
have respectively against the said Robert Wilson for any debt contract or demand
whatever now due owing or payable to us respectively, so that we nor either of
us our nor either heirs executors or administrators shall have any claim
challenge or demand against him the said Robert Wilson his heirs or assigns for
or on account of the same But that he and they forever hereafter shall stand and
remain acquitted exonerated and forever discharged of and from all and all
manner of suits or action for or on account of any debt due or demand whatsoever
now due owing or payable to us respectively Provided that nevertheless that if it shall at anytime
hereafter appear that the said Robert Wilson has or may commit any fraud or
embezzlement relative to his said goods chattels and effects assigned or meant
or intended to be assigned with intent to defraud us his creditors of our just
demands Then and in such case the foregoing discharge to be void and of no force And we our executors, administrators or assigns will be
left to pursue our several and respective remedies in Law or Equity for the
recovery of our several demands the same as if the present instrument had not
been executed anything herein contained to the contrary thereof or in any wise
not withstanding In witness whereof we have hereunto respectively set our
hands and seal the twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and eighty five The words ‘Messrs. Merryman and Sluby of
Baltimore in the State of Maryland’ being first interlined between the
eighteenth and nineteenth lines of the first page Sealed and delivered in the presence of us
John Hunter, Dunbar Sloan, Edw. Poole. Witness to the execution by Alexander Hamilton, L.M.
Cutting City of New York Be it remembered that on the eighth day of December on the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty six personally came and
appeared before me John Ray Esquire one of the Master in the Chancery Edward
Poole of the said City Gentleman who being duly deputed and sworn made oath and
saith that the several names William Shedden, Bohn Bohlen for Brothers Coster
& Co., William van der Locht, Saltonstall & Mumford, Thomas Sanders, Robt
Bowne, George Scriba for himself and Scriba Schroppel & Starman,
Timothy Wood, Coll McGregor, Daniel Bowie, William Ash, Andrew Lee & Co.,
Robert & Peter Bruce, John Wilkes, Cornelius Bradford & McEuen, Jno
Delafield, Joshua Jones, Hay Stevenson & Co., J. Montaudevert, Isaac
Gouveneur Sr. Attie to Patrick Wilson of St. Martins, Herring & Jones, James
Scott & Co. Atty for Abner & Ben Newton, Thos Clark &
Co., John Lamb, Wm Maxwell, Wm Livingston, H. Mulligan, John Brower, Thomas
Willson & CO., Edmd Seaman, James Hill by Robt Bowne
his Attorney, A. Hammond, Ludlow & Goold for Margaret Livingston, Johnson
& Ogden, Coll McGregor Attorney for Neil Jamison & John Shedden, H &
J Thompson Attorney for Wm Parver, Danl Ludlow Alexander Hamilton
Nichs Low Assignees of Isaac Moses & Company, Shedden Patrick
& Co. for John Merryman Baltimore, John Parkinson, Dunlap & van Nostrant,
John Arthur, Benj.Lightbourne, Abrm P. Lott, John Lightbody & Sons, James
Campbell, Walter Graham, John McArthur, Hill & Monteith by Thomas Buchanan
& Co. their Attorney in the within instrument of paper of writing hereunto
annexed and subscribed was severally and respectively acknowledged and delivered
by te said William Shedden, Bohl Bohlen, William vander Locht, Gilbert
Saltonstall, Thomas Sanders, Robert Bowne, George Scriba, Timothy Wood, Collin
McGregor, Daniel Bowrie, William Ash, Andrew Lee, Robert Bruce, John Wilkes,
Cornelius Bradford, John Delafield, Joshua Jones, Hay Stevenson, John
Montardevert, Isaac Gouveneur senior, Nicholas Herring, james Scott, Thomas
Clark, John Lamb, William Maxwell, William S Livingston, hercule Mulligan, John
Brower, Thomas Wilson, Edward Seaman, Archibald Hammond, Daniel Ludlow, Samuel
Johnston, John Thompson, Alexander Hamilton, Nicholas Low, John Parkinson,
Dunlap and Van Nostrant, John Arthur, Benjamin Lightbourne, Abraham P. Lott, and
Thomas Buchanan in the presence of the deponent as and from their several and
respective voluntary acts and deeds to and for the uses and purposes in the said
paper writing mentioned and expressed and I having examined the same and finding
no material erasure or interlineations except as therein mentioned do allow the
same to be recorded. The aforegoing instrument was recorded at the request of
Edward Poole and is a true copy of the original (in the 1st line
thereof page 504, “in any” and in the 16th line of page 505, “and respective” are severally written
on razures and at line 4 page 504 the letter “G”, line 11 page 506 “Attys”,
line 13 the letter “S” line 2 between sons and James “LS” and line 22
“LS” is four times interlined) Examined and compared with the said original
this 9th day of December 1786 LDS Film # 945276 |