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Livingston, John to Robert Livingston re: business and family

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.01144 Author/Creator: Livingston, John Place Written: Mount Livingston, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1717/05/29 Pagination: 1p. + addr. 30.8 x 19 cm Order a Copy

John writes of his business and family, and a new house he built near his mills. He also requests that his father write to his mother in law, Sarah Knight. Docketed on address leaf.

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