DeWITT CLINTON (1769-1828) Mayor of New York City Signed November 21, 1814 City of New York Municipal Warrant for the City Watch Force.

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Autographs Mayor DeWitt Clinton Signed November 21, 1814 City of New York Municipal Warrant for the "City Watch" Force DeWITT CLINTON (1769-1828). Presidential Candidate; Mayor of New York City, one of the most consequential political figures in the history of both the city and the state; served multiple terms as Mayor of NY between (1803-1815) and would go on to serve as Governor of New York (1817-1823) and (1825-1828); his greatest legacy the Erie Canal completed in 1825, transforming New York into the commercial capital of the nation. November 21, 1814-Dated War of 1812 Period, Partially-Printed Municipal Warrant, issued by the City of New York Signed by Mayor DeWitt Clinton and Comptroller Thomas R. Mercein, Choice Very Fine. It directs the City Treasurer to pay Holden Lawrence the sum of $474.25 for services rendered to the historic "City Watch," (force) New York's primary law enforcement body in the era before the establishment of a modern police force. The warrant is countersigned by Thomas R. Mercein as Comptroller and by J. Morton as Clerk. The date of November 1814 places this document at a moment of acute national crisis, just three months after the British Burning of Washington D.C. in August 1814 during the War of 1812, when American cities, including New York, were actively preparing their defenses and the City Watch was of heightened importance to public order and security. We ship what we sell. A City of New York municipal warrant signed by Mayor DeWitt Clinton in November 1814, directing payment to the City Watch at a moment of acute national crisis during the War of 1812, a characterful document of early New York municipal administration bearing the signature of one of the most important figures in the history of the city and state.