Sold – A Frustrated Colonel Varick Cannot Get the Continental Congress to Pay Him

A five term delegate to the Continental Congress, he was a member of the New York assembly from 1777-83, then became a state senator.

Autograph Letter Signed, Princeton, October 16, 1783, to Richard Varick. “Agreeable to your request, your letter was presented to the President of Congress. The manner of commitment and the report was contrary to my expectation. There has been no opportunity as yet to call up this report or the one made on your former memorial, copies of which you have inclosed…If the first report is taken up & passed on, it will supercede the necessity of considering the last part of the report last made. Very little business has been done of late in Congress but such as is of general concernment. We shall not omit any opportunity that offers of calling the attention of Congress to your demands against the United States.” It seems that even an officer with such a notable and sterling record as Varick was having a hard time obtaining his pay from Congress. It was just such inefficiencies and deficiencies that necessitated the calling of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

Included is a Document Signed by L’Hommedieu, Albany, March 3, 1801, donating land for the construction of the St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Church. “Know all men by these presents that I, Ezra L’Hommedieu, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar, do hereby release and convey to The Rector and Inhabitants of the City of Albany in communion of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York, and to their successors, all my right and title to an Equity of Redemption in and for that certain lot situate in the first ward of the City of Albany and fronting State StreetÉ” Its is also signed by Abraham Van Vecten and John Lovett as witnesses.