THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: KNOW YE, THAT WE HAVE NOMINATED, CONSTITUTED AND APPOINTED, AND BY THESE PRESENTS DE NOMINATE, CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT OLIVER HEWLETT, DANIEL MOTT, THOMAS HEWLETT, MICAH OWEN, JOHN S. LOTT, JOHN SIMONSON, SILVANUS TITUS, DAVID R. F. JONES, JACOB S. JACKSON, NOAH MASON AND WILLIAM RIKER TO BE WRECKMASTERS IN AND FOR OUR COUNTY OF WUEENS AND WE DO HEREBY SUPERSEDE AND REMOVE FROM THE SAID OFFICE OF WRECKMASTER STEPHEN WOOD, EDMOND HICKS, DAVID MOTT, DANIEL BEDELL, NATHAN SEAMAN AND DANIEL RAYNOR WHO WERE APPOINTED MAY 27, 1823. . . WITNESS DE WITT CLINTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, GENERAL AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF ALL THE MILITIA, AND ADMIRAL OF THE NAVY OF OUR SAID STATE, AT OUR CITY OF ALBANAY, THE 29TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, IN THE HEAR OF OUR LORD [1825] AND IN THE 49TH YEAR OF OUR INDEPENDENCE

1825 · Albany

by Wreckmasters of Queens County
Albany, 1825. Oblong printed folio broadside, completed in neat ink manuscript, 10-1/4" x 15-1/2." Signed in ink at the lower right by DeWitt Clinton, and in the lower left by Arch. Campbell, Dep. Secretary. Blank corner wear from prior mounting. Small blank margin chip.Docketed on verso in ink. Very Good.

De Witt Clinton began his second term as Governor of New York on January 1, 1825.
"Wreckmasters" were kept in business in Queens by a large number of coastal shipwrecks. Being a wreckmaster was a New York State government job, requiring removal and of the wrecked vessels. It was a patronage plum for the Governor, although the work was difficult and hazardous. (Inventory #: 41030)
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