1818 Revolutionary War Officer, General Anthony Lamb Legal Document, Sale of Property to Pay Tax Assessment | State of New York Legal Document, Sale of Property to Pay Tax Assessment | Dated November 16, 1818 - by and between Archibald M'Intyre [McIntyre], Comptroller of State of New York, assessing property taxes on certain acreage conveyed by Thomas Mumford to General Anthony Lamb of Albany, a portion of which was sold by the State to satisfy a Proeprty Tax Assessment against the whole | Signed by Archibald M'Intyre and John Ely, Jr. | Very nice NY Comptroller's Seal | Document recorded in Seneca County clerks office 1819 | Approx. Size: 16" H x 10" W.Anthony Lamb was a militia officer who was commissioned as aLieutenant in a Colonel Sebastian Bauman Us Regiment of Artillery, New York Militia, in 1793. (Bauman had been second in command of Gen. John Lamb's (Anthony's father) 2d Continental Artillery during the Revolutionary War.) Anthony was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in 1797 and to Captain in 1800. He resigned in 1803 but was reappointed as a Captain, 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment of Artillery at Albany in 1805, resigning again in 1809. (Source: Military Minutes of the Council of Appointments of the State of New York 1783-1821).d In 1812 he was appointed to the State MilitiaUs Quartermaster Department and later served as Aide-de-Camp to Governor Tompkins during the War of 1812, attaining the rank of Lt. Colonel. In 1815 he was appointed Commissary General of Ordnance and Military Stores and later as Commissary General of the State of New York. In 1817 he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. In 1821 he was dismissed as part of a general purge of supporters of Governor DeWitt Clinton by his political enemies. Anthony returned to New York City where beginning in 1825 he served for many years as an Alderman for the 5th Ward. In 1824-25 he was a member of the delegation that officially welcomed the Marquis de Lafayette on his visit to New York City. At his death he was a member of the Society of the incinnati, which arranged for his funeral in 1855.Archibald McIntyre (June 1, 1772 Dull, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland – May 6, 1858 Albany, Albany County, New York), was an American merchant and politician.John Ely (October 8, 1774 – August 20, 1849) was an American physician and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1839 to 1841.