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Collection Reference Number
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GLC03107.00853
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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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22 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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Show/hide Download PDF My dear husband
I have received this package and your son writes that he he has send letters/notes xx for 118 lb from which you can see from this letter what he writes I think you will be underway by now otherwise this will do well to give to the merchants send some ..... (sarsie?) from the goods here/which is good here I long to hear how that it is whether you will bake or not we will have the grain from the surroundings but we can’t have it until they thresh I find it work (?) to get enough for the brewer if you take it on then you have to bring a yacht filled with grain from the Esopus Sopes or flour from New York and bring money to pay the people whom we owe for the grain I have already delivered 16 hundred lb. lard and will perhaps get again as much if I can it is scare to be had here there are senecas and cayouges who are xxxx out hunting here who have beaten to death several farmers’ pigs of the farmers.
172. we do not like it at all that those Indians are hunting here but it can not be helped there is a great black mare in the first settlement the leg and all the xxxx nerves have been cut off it can not live and one from Japick and several other horses have been cut in haste Your loving wife Alida Livinghston
1711 Novemb 22
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