The Huyck Bain Crandell Collection, Document BH007
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1794 Receipt for Medical Fee, Given to Columbia County Historical Society by John E. Coxon
This letter from the Columbia County Historical Society (Margaret U. Richardson, Curator) to John Coxon, April 26, 1973, acknowledges his donation of the 1794 medical receipt.
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Transcription
COLUMBIA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY BROAD STREET KINDERHOOK, NEW YORK 12106
HOUSE OF HISTORY THE VAN ALEN HOUSE April 26, 1973
Mr. John Coxon Coxon Real Estate, Inc 18 Main Street Chatham, N. Y. 12037
Dear Mr. Coxon:
On behalf of the Historical Society I am writing to thank you very much for yout thought in sending us the 1794 receipt for medical fee. We shall place it with other documents of old Kinderhook where it will serve as an additional fascinating piece in the picture of early times.
Sincerely yours, Margaret U. Richardson (Mrs. MacD. Richardson) Curator
Commentary
The 1794 date puts this receipt amongst a few documents relating to Arent Huyck so I will assume this receipt involves him or someone in his household.
Notes:
Your father gave the 1794 medical receipt to the Columbia County Historical Society, where it presumably still resides in their collections.
The 1794 date is interesting — that would place it in the period of Arent Huyck’s final years, consistent with Ezechiel Thomas’s medical bills from the early 1770s or possibly a different medical document from the later period. Margaret Richardson’s description of it as a “receipt for medical fee” suggests it was similar in character to the Thomas documents we’ve seen.
— Notes by Claude.ai 4.6 2026-05-10 - jhc
Metadata
Document: BH007
Date: 1794
Language: English
Type: Receipt
Subject: Medical care
Principals: Arent Huyck(?)
Places Mentioned: Kinderhook
— page revised 2026-06-14 - jhc
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