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(FULTON-LIVINGSTON STEAMBOATS)

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(FULTON-LIVINGSTON STEAMBOATS)
MORGAN LEWIS (1754-1844) Revolutionary War officer, Governor of New York following John Jay. A.L.S. as New York Attorney General, 1p. legal folio, New York, Apr. 21, 1820, likely concerning the Futon-Livingston steamboat monopoly. In part: "…It is the settled opinion…that no judicial decision…can affect it. They took the right push, as it was, of which they were to judge for themselves; they predicated a contract upon it; which would still subsist had the right of Livingston & Fulton been set aside the next moment. I fear the gentlemen of the Bar are destined to make more out of this business than either your friends or myself…" Fine condition.