Titles starting with 5 from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Albany: 2 July, 1836. 160 x 135 mm; printed document, accomplished in manuscript and signed by three Commissioners of the Canal Fund. Endorsed by Corning on verso. Canceled twice with blind stamp. A check $50,000 drawn on the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, payable to Erastus Corning as Mayor of Albany, and endorsed by him on verso. One of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund who signed the check, John A. Dix, was then New York Secretary of State, later Senator, Governor, Treasury Secretary, and Civil War... more information