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Indenture Between Frances Sands & Robert Dickey

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Indenture Between Frances Sands & Robert Dickey
<B>Indenture Between Frances Sands and Robert Dickey June 2, 1809, New York City,</B></I> transferring ownership of property located between Lumber Street (now Trinity Place) and Greenwich Street. The vellum document has two pages and the integral paper map. The largest sheet is 25.75" x 22". Signed by Frances Sands, the document is in excellent condition.<BR> Greenwich Street was Manhattan's most desirable neighborhood in the post-Revolutionary War era for the city's social elite and wealthy merchant class. The fashionable 3-1/2-story Federal style houses at the southern end of the western side of Greenwich Street became known as "Millionaire's Row."<BR> In June and August 1809, merchant Robert Dickey acquired three parcels with frontage on lower Greenwich Street for $11,017 from their owners: Nathaniel Prime, one of New York's wealthiest men, its first private banker, and founder and head of the banking firm of Prime, Ward & King, and his wife, nee Cornelia Sands; Frances Sands, sister of Cornelia; and John and Catherine Ellison of Orange County. Comfort Sands, a merchant, Revolutionary War patriot, and founder of the Bank of New York, had transferred two of the lots to his daughters in 1796. Dickey entered into mortgage agreements with the Primes and Sands. By November 1809, when a court action occurred that resulted in a quitclaim in Dickey's favor, two 3-story houses were under construction at Nos. 69 and 71 (later 65 and 67) Greenwich Street, along with two stables and coach house and a storehouse along Lumber Street, separated from the houses by courtyards. <BR> On June 28, 2005, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Robert and Anne Dickey House, 67 Greenwich Street (aka 28-30 Trinity Place), a city landmark.<BR> <BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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