Simeon Pool mail delivery contract

Collection — manuscript box: 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 1171m

Scope and content

Contract hiring Simeon Pool to deliver the public mail and newspapers regularly between Canajoharie, in Montgomery County, New York, and Whitestown, in Herkimer County, a journey estimated to take 8-9 days each way. The employers who agreed to the contract with him were Lemuel Lovingsworth, Jonas Platt, Elias Kane, Elezier Moseley, Arthur Breese, Hugh White, Thomas R. Gold, and Betsy Hyde.

Dates

1792 December 24.

Creator

no primary creator (Person)
Pool, Simeon. (Person)
Lovingsworth, Lemuel. (Person)
Platt, Jonas, 1769-1834. (Person)
Kane, Elias. (Person)
Moseley, Elezier. (Person)
Breese, Arthur. (Person)
White, Hugh, active 1792. (Person)
Gold, Thomas Ruggles, 1764-1827. (Person)
Hyde, Betsy. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Jonas Platt served as the county clerk for Herkimer County, New York from 1792-1798. He subsequently served as a Congressman from New York, a senator in the New York State Senate, and a justice on the New York State Supreme Court. Arthur Breese was a New York state government official who later became clerk of the Supreme Court of Western New York. Thomas Ruggles Gold, who lived nearby in Whitesboro, Oneida County, later served in the New York State Senate, New York State Assembly, and United States House of Representatives.