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1793 LIVINGSTON COVER W/ NEW YORK S/L CANCEL + 10¢ RATE
NEW YORK TO GILBERT LIVINGSTON IN "POUGHKEEPSE TOWN"

UNITED STATES STAMPLESS COVERS US – 1793 GILBERT LIVINGSTON LETTER NY TO POUGHKEEPSIE TOWN WITH STRAIGHT LINE NEW YORK CANCEL AND 10¢ DECIMAL RATE COVERED BY OUR 5 YEAR PHILATELIC GUARANTEE OF AUTHENTICITY

Black Straight-line New*York May,26 cancel	10(¢) Rate for letter traveling 60-100 miles
Front: Black s/l *"NewYork May, 26" cancel + manuscript "10(¢)" in red showing it prepaid for a letter sent between 60-100 miles. Nice philatelic ms note note across bottom stating: "Mr. Towers will please immediately to send this to its address & charge the postage to H.G. Livingston" Henry G. Livingston was Gilbert's brother. Top ms note also "H.G.L. 26th May 1793". Reverse: Part of docketing note which includes note "Exp of R.G.L." likely Robert Livingston. Notes*: Gilbert Livingston (1742-1806) was a part of the prominent New York Livingston's. Gilbert Livingston was a distinguished lawyer of Dutchess County, New York. He was a member of the New York State Constitutional Convention that in 1788 ratified the Constitution of the United States. He, with his colleague Melancthon Smith, and some others of the republican members of the convention rose and made several speeches and voted in favor of adoption, (in opposition to most of their political friends) after it had been ratified by a sufficient number of States to put it in Operation in relation to those States. He was one of the Masters of the Court of Chancery; and was one of the Presidential electors, in 1800, who voted for Thomas Jefferson. When the Revolutionary New York government moved to Poughkeepsie during the war, Governor Clinton took up residence in the Crannell home. Gilbert and Peter Tappan (of Tappan Zee fame) were married to the Crannell sisters and Clinton was married to Peter's sister. At the same time the rest of the Crannell's, who were loyalists, moved to New York City. The building went from being the Crannell House to the Clinton House and is now the home of the Dutchess County Historical Society. After the Revolution, Crannell, a Loyalist who had fled to Tory-held New York City at the outbreak of the war, emigrated to New Brunswick, Canada, and Crannell's property was put up for auction and sold to his son-in-laws, Gilbert Livingston and Peter Tappen. [courtesy of the Gilbert Livingston Collection at the New York Public Library]* Condition: Very Fine with some edge toning and spots to right with usual file folds. A nice 18th Century stampless cover connected to many of the important names of the day. Contents: Cover sheet only no contents.
Reverse of Cover
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