1To George Washington from Abraham Ten Broeck, 4 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
We the Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Albany, with the sincerest Pleasure, avail ourselves of this opportunity, to offer your Excellency, our most cordial Congratulations on the formal Recognition of the Independence of the United States, by that Power which has so long anxiously laboured to subvert it. The Citizens of America and their Posterity, will ever have abundant Reason...
2To George Washington from Abraham Ten Broeck, 27 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
We the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Albany, beg Leave to congratulate your Excellency on your Arrival in this City. Language is insufficient to convey our Ideas of the high Sense we entertain of your Abilities and Virtues. Your great and distinguished Services, have justly entitled you to the Praise, the Love, and the Thanks of your Country, and Posterity will have Reason to...
On this Day the Commission for holding a Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery in and for the County of Albany expires. At this Court the following persons have been convicted of capital offences. They will have this Day Judgment of Death and we have agreed to order their execution on fryday the fifth day of June next. David Dick Robbery. On Sufficient Evidence. James Esmond Robert...