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Collection Reference Number
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GLC03107.00840
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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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29 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. 29
Dear Husband
I have received your letter with Schiebolet and learned from that that the Palatines will be furnished with hard bread this winter I am surprised that you buy so much good and make yourself in debt if we are not selling it the vats are coming in so rarely that we can only brew 3 times each 4 time in one as I talk to Mr. Kas he said they don’t want beer very much if you take goods then teke it to deliver it here for we won’t get to the point of riding for from Philip I can not hear that he comes they all love to be there so Philip is not alone those 8 frocks/skirts are not worth 8 sh the piece it is left-overs of 6 dozen I am surprised that you allow yourself to be thus cheated by the Jew we need a piece kornbeers and some red knobeers and colored cotton and blue and starch and some pieces.....and a piece black crepe and some black silk and ribbon and black thin......ribbon and needles we don’t have a needle to sew with and that is all we need in goods a small chest with thin candles we have about 40 animals they are half (yellow?) and half..... 150. very hard to get I have sent Gijsbert out to get a good 10 more De Leny have promised us but we have not yet agreed about the price they nearly don’t have any and (above) salsberrie are 2 big oxen but demands 6 lb. the piece you can bring along a 2 hundred and 50 lb. 5 have bought from usx already you must write the proce of the peas I can get a good parcel and good ones have been shown I will still bake the flour into bread and distribute that bit of hard bread as I am able our yacht will bring some wood along I am having it chopped now our yacht will follow on Tuesday we can not sow with this drought and need a lot of time to thresh for one brewer need a box of lace is very much in demand now I need 2 pieces of cloth xxxxxx(xxxxx?) carried a piece of cloth of 10 sh the yard with Philip that it is a piece rough osenb. which is good and silk/thread and ready laces
149. I will send the watch with him you have to buy better cloth for Gijsbert he said it is best for clothes 4 gross tin or steel buttons and the piece even muslin of light blue cotton we have got enough prefer you to buy some fine blue osenb. half hundred lb. pepper 5 lb. colored sewing thread ½ lb. black mohair a piece white and black silk handkerchiefs and a beautiful colored one which is big and good Your loving wife Alida Livinghston
across from the Sopus Esopus Beekman has already 9 of the Palatines’ families from the otherside on his land and he furnishes them with food xxxxxxxx at the end of the year they have to give him 25 bushel of wheat a year there are several families on this side who are waiting for you to come to an agreement with you 1711 Sptember 29 for our son’s wife a bushel salutations a bag of greetings to her 151. a pair of shoes for Henderickje some more upper and sole leather I am selling it now for (7?) gu the yard (?)
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