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- GLC#
- GLC03107.02008-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1687/09/09
- Author/Creator
- New York (N.Y.). City Council
- Title
- to the Mayor & Aldermen of Albany re: settlement at Catskill for the Winter
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 2p. : docket : Height: 30.4 cm, Width: 19.9 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- Native Americans
The document orders that the 5 Nations bring their women, children, and old men to Catskill on Robert Livingston's land for the winter, where they will receive any assistance they may need. It also requests that they bring as much corn and provisions as possible. Bears the signature of John Knight.
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