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Collection Reference Number
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GLC03107.00829
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From Archive Folder
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The Livingston Family Papers [036] January-July 1711
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Title
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Alida Livingston to Robert Livingston: [in Dutch]
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Date
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27 July 1711
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Author
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Livingston, Alida Schuyler (1656-1729)
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Recipient
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Livingston, Robert
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Document Type
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Correspondence
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Subjects
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Woman Author Women's History Finance Merchants and Trade Commerce
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People
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Livingston, Robert (1654-1728) Livingston, Alida Schuyler (1656-1729)
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Place written
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Manor of Livingston, New York
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Theme
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Merchants & Commerce; Women in American History
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Sub-collection
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The Livingston Family Papers
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Copyright
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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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Module
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Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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Translation
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My dear husband
My last one was with Abraham Schuyler I have gotten another letter (since) Bensinck but you had given orders for 8 days and so they bake every so often they will bake hard bread again and slice it there still is enough malt for 6 weeks 2 months brewing so I do not know what to do for xx that is no malt to brew heavy beer with the de Kas wants us to stay with the soft bread until the governor comes I do wish that the Palatines had never come here but I hope the Lord will help us and assist us I have been dunned so badly and so discourteously by Franck Sallberry as I can not write you and paid him 24 lb 12 in gold and silver and wants to have the remainder when you come and each one who has supplied us with grain lets me know so that the mill and the brewing has to be halted it puts to a halt all that we had on hand I hope not that the governor will treat us this way or he will pay us off otherwise we will be in worse shape than before our brewer also wants to go volunteering but if the governor will excuse him he will be satisfied and Tomes (Thomas) goes also 65. Mr. Kas has been here again to bake the next week but I said that I have no orders for that and that we now perhaps in 2 days will get an order otherwise I can not do it it gives a lot of disorder they could have waited long enough with that till the 300 men would have been gone but now they say that they can not let their wives and children starve I am afraid that we will be very most bothered by that xx he does not yet dare to send an order to pull in the barrels of beer the governor has to send an order it is wet sugar that I have received send some choice gherlick (?) linen for our baker Klerck had such up here last year and a piece black (chalon?) the Palatine wives come for a piece black string/ties with flowers 2 dozen net (squanz?) 3 dozen broad...(kame?) (=coombs) I do not dare order it for I think that we have been bitten send some sand with our yacht I hope that we will get money to pay for the wheat if they continue
66. Secket is very perplexed the people who work on the path and the bridge have nothing else but bread if that has now been halted they x can not continue to care about you they keep asking for molasses bring along a small barrel of sugar the cow Mary and Eva have given her to eat while Lilly (?) was gone and when I sold her she was in the xxxxx barn and he fetched the straw and bran and hay and the cow was red and white on the head on each side and at the shoulder brown and red and I showed those before he bought xx her he let it pass again I can not help that and has fed again another cow I can not say anything else
Your loving wife Alida Livinghston July 27 1711 in the manor of Livinghston
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