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Collection Reference Number
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GLC03107.00826
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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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18 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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Content Description
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Docketed on verso.
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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
This night your son is here and said that he had not seen you on the road and when he was in New York he told Klerck and the governor that the commissioners had made h......clerk and .....the governor to......to have of that and was not against it but colonel Schuyler’s writing the more......promises to follow .....you won’t do for your children as other fathers you prefer another to have it here is a letter from Klerck from which you can see that those who eat at.....table and at your....can come and sleep that those.....you and you do not have a nickel for all your costs and trouble we have from it but it is a secket who continues it....wanted to bring his family there doing what you are doing we have been quite rewarded for because such scoundrels can plague us and still have so much trouble from them but (I) hope you will ‘quite weather it/get it back again’ see what we have to get enough to do but ... do not want to give that to them if you .....get more 58. I would keep it spite those who suffered it I have (written) you twice for rum molasses sugar salt pepper tobacco need it very much an ounce cinnamon sticks and some cloves ½ quarter tea 6 saucers 5 teacups I long to hear whether or not your son Johannes goes along greet your son Robbert I xxx hope to hear glad news from him Your loving wife Alida Livinghston
we now have 4 thousand lb. bread ready and bake every rising/voyage as they have done soft bread July 18 1611 in the manor of Livinghston
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