Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179 / C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At. " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and price. Light wear. Else Near Fine. Receipts include: 30 April 1791 for Mr. E. Williams; 28 Feby 1792, 5 April 1793, and 30 Janry 1793 for Mr. Stout; and 12 February 1793 for Mr. Hillyerd. Revolutionary General Horatio Gates [1727-1806] is credited with the American victory at Saratoga, and blamed for the defeat at Camden. In 1790 Gates sold his Virginia plantation and moved with his wife to the Rose Hill Estate, a 92-acre farm a few miles outside New York City on the banks of the East River. The farm boasted an elegant dwelling, large farm house, barn with carriage house, fowl house, 260 apple trees, 9000 fruit trees, fruits, vegetables, several acres of wheat and rye, and much more. John Coutant [1757-1795] and Gilbert Coutant [1766-1845] owned and operated a store at "Two Mile Stone" in Bowery Village. Gilbert was a manager of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York from 1824-1826; member of New York State Assembly in 1825 and 1827; Alms House Commissioner about 1831; and father-in-law to Ely Moore, a U.S. Representative from New York. John Coutant died at age 38 during a Yellow Fever epidemic. Seller Inventory # 38860

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Title: LOT OF FIVE AUTOGRAPH RECEIPTS FOR HAY, ...

Publisher: [New York]

Publication Date: 1793

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