A Brief statement of facts which led to and attended the affray in this city on the 21st inst. ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 12553
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1807
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Subjects: Affray; Assault and battery; Politics and government
Notes: Describing an altercation between Solomon Van Rensselaer and Elisha Jenkins, and, two hours later, between Van Rensselaer and Judge John Tayler, who was joined in the affray by several other prominent political figures. "To prevent erroneous impressions, as to the transaction above mentioned, and to contradict the false reports that have been industriously circulated, by our political opponents, to answer party purposes, we publish the above statement, from actual testimony, and from a full conviction of its truth."

Signed: By order of the Federal Republican Committee of Albany, John H. Wendell, chairman. Teunis Van Vechten, secretary. Albany, 27th April, 1807.

For the Albany Republican Party's response to this statement, cf. To the Republican electors of the state of New-York (Albany, 1807), signed by George Merchant, chairman, and John V.N. Yates, secretary, and dated April 28, 1807.

Shaw & Shoemaker 12553

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