1717 Oct. 12

My dear husband

I have received your happy letter with Speelman now you have to use that money to pay your debts in England and try now to accord with Mr. Syemeson on Ducklis (?) debt that the interest and the principal now will be decreased somewhat because we have had such damage with the returns which we remitted while it is in mr. Sjiemesons power to accord xxxxxxxx about that and write to your other creditors that it will be so much that you will take care of it as soon as it comes in the grain they say is already 6 guilders but I don’t xxxxxx give it more than 5 guilders until you tell me different our yacht is in Albany for Flip with wood I expect him here again on Monday we now have 5 barrels ready there is very much rain here we can’t proceed with the sifting we will hurry as much as we are able to for I long to see you here for I am now getting worse and the more so because I don’t have any.....boheetee (bohee tea?) the xxxx phlegm (?) are now hard and sore and the fever with the cough you write that brother Pieter is so angry that he wants to stop it in the council I hope that it will not be in his power we were not angry at him when he got his money from the assembly he did not have as much right to it as we do but we have to commend this matter to God for He will do as seems best to Him you write that our Robbert wants to go to Jamaica this winter I thought that he was going to live now at his practice and I thought that he wanted to get married but I thought so that there would be something else that would come to his mind I think that he will need again winterclothes if it could be done with a hundred lb in flour and kernel bread it would be helpful and be help-ful to him and if he got something along in commission from the merchants who knows it might be best for him
I hope God will bless whatever he may care to undertake I hope that you and friends now finish up the business with the house which you sold while brother Pieter is there



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Your loving wife
Alida Livinghston
in the manor of Livinghston
1717 October 12

I wished I had the list of the animals should be with Teny in that time I have great trouble with our people to mill and sift I have received all the goods and thank you for the bohe tea but it is very expensive for what it is worth do not send anymore please have our yacht bring 2 dozen big linen shears/scissors nails 3 dozen long (knives?) a barrel double a barrel single a barrel matches and 10 thousand shoenails 4 oxheads rhum a dozen small pins 2 dozen xxxxx white broad ribbon 2 dozen big silk handkerchiefs a piece steel grey cloth 9 or 10 sh the yard 500 big flints 10 pieces upper leather 10 sole leather a copper’s pole a pull knife (?) as large as the coopers have and a ....knife a gross (?) he said that he wants to make 400 barrels if only he can have.....sees (?) to help him with the sawing and then he will still be able to make more a sharp knife a coopers hatchet 2 iron hoops to put the flour barrels on 3 dozen knives with a palm handles a small barrel of good gun powder Vranck Salberrie goes down perhaps he needs 50 lb
I will send the bran which we can xxxxxx spare we have a lot of cattle to bring there and have no maize 2 dozen tin cups 2 doxzen dram cups from a bonnet (?) 2 dozen salt pots I will send the old tin with our yacht october 14 1717
I will do with the animals as you write me 2 dozen broad combs

your loving wife
Alida Livinghston
I still had stock sugar