Lot 140
1693 Account For Repairing New York City Fortifications. Document Signed by Nicholas Bayard ("N. Bayard") as a member of the governor's council, New York, April 3, 1693, 1 pg., 7¼ x 7½ in. Headed "Disbursements towards the Repairing the fortifications about the Citty N. York," and listing additions to the account given October 3, 1692 for £209:11:11. March 15 notations show £2:5 for "one boat load of Stockades formerly omitted in ye acct. from Cornelis Janson," £2:6 to Thomas Robbins for freight, and 2 shillings for "8 smal stockades at 3d." Archival fold repair on verso, else Fine. During his lifetime, Nicholas Bayard held several prominent positions in New York: private secretary to Governor Stuyvesant, surveyor of the province, secretary of the province, mayor of New York, and a member of the governor's council; Benjamin Fletcher was governor at the time of this document. In later years, Bayard was accused (by the Leisler faction) of a scheme to introduce popery and slavery into New York, as well as piracy; he was tried for high treason and condemned to death, but the proceedings were annulled and his property and honors were reinstated. Of added interest is the fact that in 1662, his future wife, Judith Verlet, was imprisoned as a witch by the Puritans of Hartford, Connecticut!
Estimated Value $700 - 900.
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