- GLC#
- GLC03107.00623-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1701/07/25
- Author/Creator
- Riggs, John, fl. 1699-1701
- Title
- to Robert Livingston re: Governor Tolvin's voyage to Jamaica
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address Height: 31.1 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Thirteen Colonies
Riggs writes of the first ship come to New York after such a long period of inactivity, a ship carrying twenty eight passengers from England and France. He also describes a fleet of twenty-eight ships carrying two thousand men to accompany Governor Tolvin to his new post in Jamaica. Docketed on address leaf.
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