(NEW YORK) Willett Marinus Signed account for western New Yo

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(NEW YORK.) Willett, Marinus. Signed account for western New York frontier lands. Autograph Document Signed, once at the bottom of the document and twice in the text. One page, 8 x 13 inches, docketed on verso; minor wear, full separation along one fold intersecting Willett's signature. New York, 9 December 1784

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Colonel Marinus Willett (1740-1830) was an important militia leader on the western New York frontier during the Revolution. Shortly after the war, he handled the sale of the Coxeborough and Carolina patents in what is now Oneida County, near Rome. George Washington acquired 6071 acres, described in his will. This document summarizes Willett's account "for the purchase of 12131 acres of land in the townships of Coxborough & Carolinia" with another Revolutionary officer, John Lamb, who had served New York as an artillery colonel at Yorktown and was later brevetted as general. By this point, Lamb was serving as Collector of the Port of New York. Lamb paid for his purchase mostly with depreciation certificates. Governor George Clinton's account is also referenced.