Livingston, Peter (1737-1794) to unknown
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.803.01 Author/Creator: Livingston, Peter (1737-1794) Place Written: Manor Livingston, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 24 February 1782 Pagination: 1 p. ; 20.9 x 17 cm. Order a Copy
Sent Captain John Shaver with four barrels of flour. Asks Bromfield to store them and send them by first convenyance to Captain Hopkins at Hartford. Also says to send Hopkins all the pork. Says to also send what is not cut up because this will be the last sleding of the year. Asks him to check the town records and let him know if there if there is a record of transaction between Edward Quincy and anyone else for ore at the Simsbury mines. Livingston wants to buy it, but he heard that Quincy might have already sold it.
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