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Collection Reference Number
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GLC03107.00838
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From Archive Folder
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The Livingston Family Papers [037] August-December 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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September 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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Show/hide Download PDF 1711 Sept. (26)
My dear husband
I have written you yesterday with haste don’t buy many goods from another but for which you provide bread and beer we need starch and blue and white konbeers and rough and white osenburgh and pepper and paper our oven is now cooling off to lay another floor and Samel presently will wheel out the wheat till the 13th we have delivered 26 thousand breads he now gives again hard bread because the oven is cooling bring 20 (roos...red? rosy?) knobeers and a piece striped konbeers and colored cotton and tin and crockery will do well 2 dozen beautiful silk handkerchiefs let Robbert have a new garment if he needs it and Gijsbert would like to have fine cloth for a garment I hope that our daughter is much improved make sure Naetje takes good care of her I hope that you came to a good agreement with the governor that your xxxxxx furnish the bread and beer and that your debt is paid in England that you return at the firs we have now sown 90 bushel of wheat 8 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx bushel of rye and we now have to plough for seed in the pot we are carting the beams up and are busy
145. putting the xxxx earth on the dam and we need a piece black crepe 25 half sheets soleleather the 4 are gone 10 upperleather fine and rough good.....spun cotton there is a leak sprung in the kettle we will ....some flour and iron dust the smith said it will hold we could not see how big it is until the kettle is cold I have a great deal of trouble if we keep the brewing then we should have a better kettle that letter from Hardebergh he had opened he said by mistake Ary Gherste has sold now at least 15 hundred bushel in cabbage for 7 guilder 10 nickels and as yet send a part to New York so that none can be gotten here Your loving wife Alida Livinghston
Parcker came by here as I was at honterstan (?) I long to hear from our daughter how her chest is I feel quite lonely with this be commended to the Lord Alida Livinghston
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