(WAR OF 1812) Grant of land to Commodore Thomas MacDonough b

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(WAR OF 1812.) Grant of land to Commodore Thomas MacDonough by the grateful city of Albany. Autograph Document Signed by Mayor Philip S. Van Rensselaer, 15 x 16 1/2 inches to sight on vellum, with paper seal of the city in left margin; not examined out of frame. (MRS) Albany, NY, 3 October 1814

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MacDonough's naval victory at the Battle of Plattsburgh drove the British out of Lake Champlain, earning him the gratitude of Albany to the south. This deed awards him a parcel on Washington Square for his "gallant conduct . . . in the signal victory achieved by him over a superior British squadron on Lake Champlain on the eleventh day of September last." Provenance: Swann sale, 21 September 1989, lot 283, to the consignor.