Receipt to Andrew Craig and William Cooper, 23 January 1786
Receipt to Andrew Craig and William Cooper1
New York, January 23, 1786. Receipt for a deed to a tract of land in George Croghan’s Otsego Patent.2
ADS, anonymous donor.
1. Cooper, who later founded Cooperstown, New York, was the father of James Fenimore Cooper, the novelist. Cooper and Craig were residents of Burlington, New Jersey, and both were land speculators.
2. For the text of this document and an explanation of its contents, see the discussion of the Otsego Patent of George Croghan in , forthcoming volumes.