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- GLC#
- GLC03107.00643-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1701/10/07
- Author/Creator
- Livingston, John
- Title
- to Robert Livingston re: asking for business advice
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address Height: 30.8 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Thirteen Colonies
John writes of his "bisenes faling out so unhapeley" that he is presently leaving New York for New London with £350 "worth in goods fitt for that Countrey." He also writes that Lord Cornbury, the newly appointed Governor for New York, had set sail from England on 25 August and would hopefully arrive soon "to Releve us of Some Meserey." Docketed on address leaf.
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