In the office of the State Comptroller, the pay-bills and other vouchers are preserved with creditable fullness, in vol. 40 of Revolutionary Manuscripts , though somewhat disarranged. The minutes of the Albany County board were retained by its secretary. After his death they came into the possession of his grandson, the late Thomas Hun, M. D., of the city of Albany, by whose generosity they were presented to the New York State Library in 1850. Inquiry of Marcus

T. Hun, Esq., a son of Dr. Thomas Hun, who very kindly instituted a search among family papers, for the possible existence of collateral or other records of the board, produced negative results. The first page of the first volume is wholly in the handwriting of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, except the signatures to the oath, which are autographs of the commissioners, that were written in at various times. During the month

' Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library of the State of New- York. Made to the Legislature, on the 10th of February, 1851 . Albany, 1851, p. 209.

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of April, 1778, occasional headings and items were written in by Van Rensselaer. But most of the minutes of that month are in the handwriting of Mathew Visscher, who 1

also wrote occasional minutes, from time to time, in 1778, apparently during the temporary absence of the secretary. Apparently Gansevoort wrote all of the minutes, with the exceptions mentioned, save a portion of the rough minutes, which begin on June 29, 1779, in a handwriting that has not been determined; but interpolations and other revisions of this drafted section are Gansevoort's. A large part of the minutes, especially pp. 1-79 and 135-489 of the second volume, is wholly a clean secretarial transcript. 1'here