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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03107.00620 |
| From Archive Folder | The Livingston Family Papers [028] 1701 |
| Title | John Riggs to Robert Livingston regarding a potential embargo |
| Date | 14 July 1701 |
| Author | Riggs, John (fl. 1699-1701) |
| Recipient | Livingston, Robert |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Riggs writes reiterating his fears of a news embargo, stating that no ship with news had arrived at either Boston or New York. He sends word that, contrary to rumors, Virginia Lt. Governor Nicholson is not married, and reports of a Major Hobbes who travels through the streets of New York with "three or four Negroes in a handsome livery." Docketed on address leaf. |
| Subjects | Merchants and Trade Commerce Maritime Embargo Government and Civics Marriage Transportation Slavery African American History |
| People | Riggs, John (fl. 1699-1701) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | Merchants & Commerce; Naval & Maritime; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | The Livingston Family Papers |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |