[NEW YORK PRESIDENTS]. LIVINGSTON, PHILIP, President of the New York Provisional Congress, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Autograph endorsement signed, New York, 13 October 1766, 1 page, oblong, at the bottom of a bill for "sundries" payable with interest from 1763, the future signer directs: "Recd. the above sum of [L35 4s. 6p.] by the hands of Mr. Petr. Ramseur..." -- GEORGE CLINTON, President of the New York Constitutional Convention, Governor, Vice-President. Autograph letter signed to M.B. Tallmadge, Caspar's Kill, [Dutchess County], 26 October 1804, 2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf, patched seal hole, long letter on legal matters and financial affairs: "...I am apprehensive that the draft which I sent you on the Albany State Bank will not be competent to the Advances I shall have to make this Fall in paying off my workmen & laying in my Winter Stores..." -- ABRAHAM TEN BROECK, President of the New York Provisional Congress. Autograph letter signed to Stephen Van Rensselaer, Albany, 23 March 1780, 1 1/4 pages, folio, integral address leaf, interesting letter to his nephew, recommending his neighbor, who is to escort him from Princeton to Albany and sending compliments to Dr. [John] Witherspoon (a Signer) and other news -- PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT, President of New York State Constitutional Convention. Autograph letter signed to Assistant Quartermaster General Quackenbush, "Nine Partners" [a tavern?], 21 May 1781, 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf, small seal hole, asking a favor: "Should an Opportunity Offer and You Could Send the Waggon down to Poghkeepsie [sic], it wod [sic] sute [sic] verry [sic] well as I shall be there attending the Legislature..." -- ABRAHAM YATES, President of the New York Provincial Congress. Document signed, Albany, 14 January 1771, an oblong, hole affecting two words,, legal notice to an attorney that he will represent the plaintiff in a court case soon to be heard at Albany; together 5 items. (5)