![Item #43934 [Manuscript] Legal Petition to Settle a Financial Dispute in Westchester County, New York. New York. Westchester County, Edward Thomas.](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43934.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1677275782)
[Manuscript] Legal Petition to Settle a Financial Dispute in Westchester County, New York.
(White Plains), NY: 1789. [4 pp.] Bifolium. 8 x 13 inches. Very good, lightly soiled and edge worn, minor tears at the folds. Item #43934
Filed in the Westchester County Court of Common Pleas, Henry Sherman of the Town of Harlem suing William Foshay and George Hepworth for a debt now valued at twenty-nine pounds in September 1789 by his attorney, Edward Thomas. With a detailed list of court costs and legal fees adding up to three pounds eleven shillings. Edward Thomas, surrogate of Westchester County, was a leading lawyer and had an extensive practice,between 1786 and 1806. He was the grandson of Judge John Thomas, the patriot who died a prisoner in New York, in 1777 (History of Westchester County, V.1, p. 539).
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