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- GLC#
- GLC03107.02929-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1755/10/13
- Author/Creator
- Livingston, John, 1714-1786
- Title
- to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: worry regarding the late Henry Hansen's debts
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1p. : address : Height: 32.6 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Thirteen Colonies
John expresses concern for the health of Robert, Jr.'s son Philip, and wishes Philip could come to New York to see a physician. He explains that the whole family is quite sorrowful over the death of their brother in law Henry Hansen, and are troubled with finding a way to take care of his numerous outstanding debts. At the bottom of the letter he adds that war with France seem inevitable. Docketed on address leaf.
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