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Collection Reference Number
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GLC03107.00851
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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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9 November 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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My dear husband
I am sending the yacht to New York because Philip sent the goods here with Nannigh and it arrived here all wet(?) with the rain they told me it was the governor’s sloop when I opened the letter I saw it was from Philip it is quite discourteous and awful what he did I will not forget it as long as I live that he played you for such a fool I have written him that we will keep it in mind I am sending it off with the yacht and you can then have it brought to the xxxxxxEsopus Sopus and keep it and do with it from there otherwise I do not know what you should do with it I think that that will be best I have given the governor’s letter to Beck he would send it to the Esopus Sopus and my letter I have given to Pieter Quackenbos with the receipt for the 12 animals and what they cost I send as per invoice bed and a xxx trunk in which is linen and silverware a black (?) small trunk in which is Naetjes linen and the velvet garment 166. I would have kept it here but here is each day alarm they see French Indians then here then there so I am afraid to keep it here and we have more goods here then we shall sell here in a year for everybody is provided with goods from the harvest we need 100 lb. heavy lead 100 lb. pidgeon shot hundred lb. duckshot 100 lb. lead and some salt that is all we need a pair of shoes for me a pair for Naetje a pair for Robbert a pair for Hendrikje for we walk without shoes 100 flints we don’t have any I have paid Johannes Spoor 5 lb for the horses and the other he’ll take us up on I send you 22 lb wash/wax there is also a piece duffels more than is on the list the kettle has been patched we could not do anything on the pump or on the well in that snowy and rainy weather that is no fall weather to do it in and there are not so many vats or the brewer can manage allright I don’t even have a handful to pour and don’t know how to get any for money or golden words rain and snow make that we 167. can not get to Tachkanick we have gotten there 50 bushel and will go there again when the snow leaves we have now about 250 bushel malt and will have it threshed for this week it is too much for me to over-see so many Negroes I send you 300 bushel peas to sell they are ours which we bought for 6 guilders the bushel if you do not bring flour to bake for 3 months you can not do it well Kas has only bread for 3 weeks I could have had 18 fat animals more which would have come from Kinderhoek and from other places he said (?) he had no occasion there for and the people have taken them to Albany and now he would love to have them but now there is no chance I can no longer stand Kas that he wrote such lies about you the governor has written very strongly about you that is no gratefulness that we have such a trouble and expenses from secket and all who belong there butx the one who does most x in this world gets repaid less he ships off 67 straw and the fat I asked him to buy 6 tongues/6 ton goods/money and he refused and they are laughing here and we have the trouble for that 168. ask if my trunk and Naetjes trunk and bed can stay at Mr. Jameson’s your loving wife Alida Livinghston
in the manor of Livinghston 1711 november 9
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