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	GANSEVOORT, Leonard (1751-1810) Guide to Research Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leonard Gansevoort writes regarding developments in the state legislature and bewails the slow pace of activity, but indicates that progress toward the selection of New York’s delegates to the Continental Congress is progressing.
		Leonard Gansevoort writes concerning the recent selection of a candidate for the New York State Assembly from the Town of Bethlehem, Albany County, New York.
		Leonard Gansevoort complains that the “mode which they have adopted of choosing the candidates by ballot is novel and cannot be submitted to as it is an abandonment of the principle which ought to govern.”
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=G000040 (461 words)

	Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Gansevoort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Among the public positions held by General Gansevoort was that of first judge of the county court of Albany county from 1843 to 1847, the duties of which office he discharged with great fidelity and to the entire satisfaction of the legal profession and the public.
		The illness of judge Gansevoort was long and trying; but he retained his mental powers to the last and sank quietly and peacefully to his rest, just as his country had entered on the centennial vear of its independence, in achieving which his father had rendered such important service.
		Colonel Gansevoort was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers and lieutenant-colonel in the regular service, and held at the time of his death the rank of captain of artillery in the regular line of promotion in the United States army.
	www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/gansevoort.html (4923 words)

	From Chapter 6 of Subversive Genealogy
		Gansevoort impressed upon his uncle the "vast importance of success in this matter to me." But Wall Street was hardly the arena in which a double descendant of revolutionaries could flower.
		He was a classmate of Gansevoort's in the Albany Academy, and an apprentice lawyer and copyist in Peter Gansevoort's law office.
		Maria Melville, deploring her nephew Peter Gansevoort's lack of ambition, complained that he was "devoid of emulation, which urges so many on to exertion." Registering the shift from paternal models to maternal love, Maria blamed Mary Ann Gansevoort for her son's failure.
	www.ku.edu /~zeke/bartleby/rogin.html (4254 words)

	Peter Gansevoort
		--His brother, Leonard Gansevoort, born in Albany in 1751; died there in 1810, was a delegate to the Continental congress from New York during 1787-'8.
		--Peters' cousin, Leonard Gansevoort, born in 1754; died in 1834, was first judge of Albany County in 1794-'7.
		--Peter's grandson, Guert Gansevoort, naval officer, born in Gansevoort, Saratoga County, New York, 7 June, 1812; died in Schenectady, New York, 15 July, 18(18, was the son of Leonard H. Gansevoort.
	www.famousamericans.net /petergansevoort (818 words)

	Leonard Gansevoort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leonard Gansevoort (July 14, 1751–August 26, 1810) was an American political leader from New York who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1788.
		He was born in 1751 in Albany County, New York to Harmen Gansevoort (1712–1801) and Magdalena Douw Gansevoort (1718–1796).
		Early in his political career he was aligned with the patrician group of the large estates owners and commercial interests, but later became involved with the early evolution of the Democratic Party in New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonard_Gansevoort (211 words)

	Encyclopedia of Albany History. A Clio Media History Project. Department of History, University at Albany.
		A committed revolutionary, he served on the Albany Committee of Correspondence, was elected to the Provincial Congress - where he served as president in 1777, was appointed Albany County clerk in 1778, and served for many years in both houses of the New York State Legislature.
		As he grew in wealth and stature, Gansevoort invested in real estate within and beyond Albany.
		Leonard Gansevoort died unexpectedly in August of 1810.
	www.albany.edu /history/eoah/entries/g/gansevoort_leonard.htm (304 words)

	Gansevoort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gansevoort family of early Albany traces its roots to Harmen Harmanse and Maria Conyn Gansevoort.
		Harme's sons, Leonard Gansevoort and Peter Gansevoort, became leaders in the Revolutionary movement and in the establishment of the new state and nation.
		The dock at the end of Maiden Lane was known as "Gansevoort's wharf." In 1789, Leonard Gansevoort purchased the estate called Whitehall.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /albany/bios/g/gansevoort.html (259 words)

	Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, Part 8
		Catharine of Nicholas A. Quakenbush and Annatie Gansevoort.
		Helena Maria of Enoch Leonard and Maria V. Vechten.
		Leonard Gansevoort of Jacob Ten Eyck and Magdalen Gansevoort.
	aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/gen/albany/part8.html (6585 words)

	Leonard Gansevoort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was the son of Albany mainstays Harman and Magdalena Douw Gansevoort.
		Sources: The life of Leonard Gansevoort is CAP biography number 4666.
		This profile is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /albany/bios/g/leogans4666.html (294 words)

	LA Downtown News Online
		Still, Michel Attias seems to believe what he is saying when he boasts that the coming Gansevoort West, with its three rooftop bars and its refurbished ground floor theater, will be special.
		The boutique hotel conversion is the latest in the long history of the massive structure at 851 S. Grand Ave., recognizable for the rooftop dome.
		The Gansevoort arrives as its South Park neighborhood is undergoing a shift sparked by the 1999 opening of Staples Center and the recent groundbreaking of the $1.5 billion L.A. Live project.
	www.ladowntownnews.com /articles/2005/09/26/news/news02.txt (1291 words)

	Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Ten Eyck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was a most fortunate display of alertness and had there been no sharp knife so conveniently at hand, doubtless his fate would have been similar to the scores of the gold-seekers whose fortune carried them to death.
		By inheritance, she possesses a great many pieces of highly artistic old furniture and a quantity of colonial silver of beautiful design and workmanship, which are the envy of all the connoisseurs who behold it.
		She was born in Claverack, December 24, 1843, daughter of John Lewis Michael, born in Claverack, December 12, 1815, died in Claverack in autumn of 1872, and Elizabeth Miller, born May 5, 1818, at Humphreyville, died in Claverack, October 9, 1906, who were married in Claverack, April 22, 1834.
	www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/teneyck-1.html (2134 words)

	WNYC - News - Mayor's 20-Year Garbage Plans Begins to Fray at the Edges
		Under the Hudson River Park Act, the Sanitation Department was supposed to leave Gansevoort by the end of 2003.
		Butzel saw the mayor’s new idea for Gansevoort as another sign that the Sanitation Department was doing little to get out of the park, and his group sued.
		And if commercial garbage can’t go to a new and improved waterfront facility at West 59th Street, he says Bloomberg may not be able to make good on his promise to cut back the number of private garbage transfer stations in overburdened communities like Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and the South Bronx.
	www.wnyc.org /news/articles/56863 (1254 words)

	Leonard Gansevoort Jr. to Leonard Bronk, 1 Sep 1778 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leonard Gansevoort Jr to Leonard Bronk on events of 1778
		I expected before now to have heard from you respecting the Flour which I spoke to you about I would be glad if you would let me know whether you have it to spare I am greatly in Want of it as I have not any to use at this Time
		No prior consent is required for this purpose.
	www.nyhistory.net /~drums/l_gansevoort_to_bronk_090178.htm (173 words)

	TIME.com: Amster's El -- Nov. 21, 1932 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		President Roberts of Manhattan Railway waved his arms in despair, yelled: "The meeting is yours." The Amster group then elected their own board and went home.
		Thus did Nathan Leonard Amster bring a new entry to the crowded field of interests which are jockeying for position in New York City's plans for unification of all its transit lines (TIME.
		Edward Norphlet Brown, chairman of the executive committee (he is also board chairman of stricken St. Louis-San Francisco) and Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,744764,00.html (680 words)

	Kingston, First Captial of New York
		It was the evening of Sunday, the President, General TenBroeck, was absent, and also the Vice President, General Pierre Van Cortlandt, but revolutions know neither days nor individuals, General Leonard Gansevoort, acting as President pro tem., attested the document.
		Brief sessions were held until the 15th of October, when the Convention again resigned the care of public affairs to the Committee of Public Safety, and on the 31st day of January, 1777, Messrs.
		Gansevoort, of Albany, moved that the Convention adjourn, to meet at Kingston on the 19th.
	www.threerivershms.com /kingston.htm (11469 words)

	WNYC - News - Council Approves Bloomberg's Trash Plan
		LAPIN: there are significant legal and legislative challenges facing all three of the sites in Manhattan -- Gansevoort, 59th street and 91st Street.
		I don't believe that all three of them are going to come on line.
		REPORTER: Under the plan the city has three years to secure Gansevoort and West 59th or it must come back to the Council with alternative sites.
	www.wnyc.org /news/articles/62401 (289 words)

	Timeline on NYS Executions 1779 -1889 (Page 3: 1792 -1794)
		One report estimated more than 60 buildings were destroyed in downtown Albany that Sunday evening.
		Flames spread from Leonard Gansevoort's stable and quickly consumed most of the other wooden buildings in the block of Market Street bounded by State Street, Middle Alley, and Maiden Lane.
		To keep the fire from igniting the rest of the city, Pearl Street homes were wetted down and some wooden buildings were chopped down and cleared away to create a firebreak.
	www.correctionhistory.org /hangings/hangdates3.html (1787 words)

	WNYC - News - Abandoned Railway Becomes Elevated Promenade
		But soon they can get a first glimpse of what it might look like.
		The High Line ends abruptly in the air, above Gansevoort Street, in the Meatpacking District.
		Soon-to-be-released plans show this section covered by a small grove of trees, ending in a glass wall, to prevent people from running off the edge.
	www.thehighline.org /press/articles/041805_wnyc (239 words)

	New York Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He takes a break from heading up The Decemberists for a solo tour.
		Poetic rock songs recall early Bowie, Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley.
		Everything from ska to gospel—and they have fun doing it.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=14629 (377 words)

	NEWS STORY, Southern New England Auto Racing News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cards may be sent to his wife Doris at:
		GANSEVOORT and APOLLO BEACH, Fla. -- Loren K. (Dutch) Reed, 72, a resident of Gansevoort and Apollo Beach, Fla., passed away unexpectedly, Friday, Jan. 11, 2002, at his Apollo Beach residence.
		Born on May 1, 1929, in Schenectady he was the son of the late Irving and Harriet (Smith) Reed.
	www.snracing.com /DUTCH_REED.htm (237 words)

	Sons of the American Revolution (Rochester Chapter)
		Letter from Andrew Down to John Ten Broeck, Esq., 10 May 1776
		Letter from Leonard Gansevoort to John Ten Broeck, Esq.
		Letter from Christopher Yates to Henry Glen, Esq., 24 August 1777
	www.library.rochester.edu /index.cfm?page=2376 (644 words)

	Notable People
		Tailor, furrier, with Daniel Leonard he started the formal cap and gown
		Founded Covert Manufacturing in Troy, later moved to West Troy (now
		Peter Gansevoort, hero of Fort Stan-wix in the American Revolution.) and
	www.albanyruralcemetery.org /albrurcem/Notable.html (14768 words)

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