25. JOHN LANSING, JR. (1754 - 1829) American politician. Member of the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, Secretary to General Schuyler (1775-1776), Mayor of Albany (1786), Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court (1790-1798), Chancellor of the State of NY who financed a topographic and geologic study of the Helderberg and Catskill Mountains by Amos Eaton. A.D.S., "John Lansing, Jr.", 1p. 4to., [Albany, N. Y.], Nov. 17, 1812. In part: "...Please to pay Mr. Everitt four hundred & seventy nine dollars...taking his receipt in full on the...Ödescribed contract.... On the verso is an explanation of Everitt's contract with Lansing's company. Light soiling, else very good. $75-100