Beyond Penn's Treaty
Other Names: Robert Troupe
Assumed Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1756
Birth Place: New Jersey
Death Date: 1832
Death Place: New York City
Affiliations: New York Manumission Society , New York State
Notes: American soldier, lawyer, and jurist. Member of New York State Assembly (1786), served as Clerk of Court of the District of New York (1789-1796), Judge in the District of New York (1796-1798). Appointed general agent managing the Pultney Estate in 1801. Close friend of Alexander Hamilton and founding member of the New York Manumission Society, although he owned slaves. Friend and correspondant of Thomas Eddy, lived in Geneva.