Liber Natus Libertatem defendo.

Reverse. Arms of the State of New-York, complete.

Legend. Excelsior, 1787

III. Device. Bust intended for that of General Washington. Legend. Non vi Virtute Vici.

Reverse. Liberty seated; a staff surmounted with a cap of

liberty in her right, and scales of justice in her left hand. Legend. Neo-Eboracensts. 1786.

IV. Device and Legena. Same as N" II.

Reverse. Crest of the State Arms ; an Eagle proper on a half

globe. Legend. Neo Eboracus : Excelsior. 1787.

V. Device A ship under full sail.

Legend. Talbot Allum k Lee New York ; One Cent.

Reverse. A full length figure of Liberty, holding a staff surmounted by a liberty cap in her right hand, whilst she supports a rudder in her left. A bale of merchandize at her feet.

Legend. Liberty & Commerce. 1794.

Figs. I. and V. are in the collection of the Albany Institute

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DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF NEW- YORK.

[ From Sullivan Co. Whig, Jan'y 26th, 1850. ]

'In reference to Dr. O'Callaghan's Collections the Rondou, Courier remarks :

Antiquity.-- The Sullivan Whig publishes extracts from O'Callaghan'j Documentary Collections, embracing the names of the inhabitants of Ulster County in 1683. Mr. O'Callaghan has made sad work with the nomenclature. Our 'oldest inhabitant ' would hardly recognize his own name in the transcription. It is true there is a strange variation in the spelling of family names of different periods. Our Sullivan friend's name for instance is written Hasbroque, Haasbrouck, Hasbroek, &c., &c., which is readily accounted for from the fact that a county of Dutchmen in the main were at the orthographical mercy of English clerks. But Mr. O'Callaghan's errors seem to be the fruit of a lack of decyphering ability. The old chirography is rather different from the modern -- the e, for instance, more like a cross between the o and d than its present representative.