1711
(Aug)
7
I have stopped delivering bread to the Palatines they have had the last and the soldiers have had hard bread since then and beer and the Palatines who are going up also have hard bread and beer each for 4 days they still need 50 Palatines and four hundred have already started on their way there will few to be found shortly there is a great crying among the wives and children that their men have gone and have no bread or beer I say I can not help it they say they quite know it they see without money they can not bake
71.
Our apples are all gone I fear we will have the most damage from it I can not see where we can make money on but from rum molasses and sugar and tobacco I need some blue you have the keys of the rough trunk and of the cashbox you should look in your chest or in your wigbox or else your son should look in his box for I have put it in for certain I hope you will get as much as to pay the farmers there is still 600 bushel to be gotten at Franck Salberrie’s
69.
I do not dare get it until I have money with this be commended to the Lord
Your loving wife
Alida Livinghston
August 7th
I long for you to come here I can not stand the crying of the people so they call for bread and beer I did 3 breads last week and that will be distributed to the women shortly I keep the brewer working xx otherwise he wants to go along and we have malt which
72.
mill and brewery and bakery will stop very shortly your son Gijsbert is in the Sopus I have not yet seen the order nor letter to the Commissioners I will ship the bread which we have we still have to bake x part of it and will make as much haste as we can
(NY 11 Sept 1711 my wife letter from ye manor of 7 of August no bread for ye Palateyns)