2020-01 Putnal
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/18/2020
Pair of documents pertaining to J. Livingston Van Houten who hired a substitute to fill his military enrollment. Includes: Partly-printed Document Signed, 1p. oblong octavo, Rockland County, New York, "NOTICE OF ENROLLMENT", and reads in part: "...Take Notice, that you have been enrolled as liable to do Military duty in the Rockland Regimental District of this State. If you claim exemption for any reason, you must file a written statement of such exemption…" Signed by the enrolling officer. VG...plus; Partly-printed Document Signed, 1p. Quarto, Tanytown, New York, September 19, 1864, "Certificate of Non-Liability, to be Given by the Board of Enrollment", it reads in part: "...We, the subscribers, composing the Board of Enrollment of the Tenth District of the State of New York...hereby certify that J.L. Van Houten [of] Clarkstown of Rockland County, State of New York, having given satisfactory evidence that he is not properly subject to do military duty, as required by said act, and the act approved Feb'y 24, 1864, by reason of furnishing substitute, is exempt from all liability to military duty…" Signed by the President of Board of Enrollment and two others. VG.
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