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Livingston, Robert Account sheet re: construction of ships [in Dutch]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.00258 Author/Creator: Livingston, Robert Place Written: [Albany, New York] Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1694/10/12 Pagination: 4 p. + docket 31 x 20.2 cm Order a Copy

Itemized list of supplies and expenditures for the construction of three vessels by Livingston and Peter Schuyler. Also bears the signature of Peter Schuyler on p.4.

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