Summary Information

Title: Pratt family papers,
Creator: Pratt Family
Inclusive dates: 1758-1903
3 folders.
Letters, legal documents, financial records.
Abstract::

Letters received by Horace L. Edgar Pratt, a Protestant Episcopal rector on Staten Island, New York; also, a Civil War draft exemption certificate issued to John A Kernochan, Sept. 10, 1863; Queens County documents including a four year indenture apprenticing Joseph Lawrence to Effingham Lawrence; a bill of sale selling Joseph, a Negro boy; a receipt for a twelve pound bounty for William Aitken for New York militia service during the Revolutionary War; and a proclamation of Governor George Clinton.

Call number: 223
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library