The letter was written in disappearing ink and it was initialed, not signed. The Clements Library at the University of Michigan identified the initials as belonging to Cadwallader D. Colden, who, according to the library, was an American militia colonel and former lieutenant governor of New York.
Keith Herkalo found that he wasn't the lieutenant governor, his grandfather was.
He found more discrepancies in the story and started tracing the Colden family and found that they were indeed rich and influential. He then took a closer look at the initialed letters and decided that they weren't C.D.C., but C.R.C.
So, the person in question was Cadwallader R. Colden.
So, then Herkalo did another 18 months of research into Cadawallader R. Colden.
Getting to the Bottom of This. --Brock-Perry
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