Scope and Content Note
This series includes correspondence, notes, deeds, contracts, checks, court-issued documents, and leases. The bulk of the records consist of contracts and similar agreements made by the Attorney General's Office for the services of receiver attorneys, or for the designation of special counsel, in various legal cases that involved New York State. These agreements date largely from the period that John Cunneen was Attorney General (1903-1905), and the year or two immediately after. Other records in the series include a lease for Cunneen's New York City office (1904-1905), a calendar for a special term of the New York Supreme Court held in Herkimer (1910), checks written by the Department of Highways for payment of engineering services (1907-08),
a court stenographer's job application, and several documents pertaining to property transactions by the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad Company (1867), as well as its subsidiary the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Ferry Extension Railroad Company. One document in particular, an Abstract of Title, summarizes the ownership history of several parcels of land in Newburgh, New York dating back to the original land grant from George II.
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