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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.00470 Author/Creator: Constables of Albany Place Written: Albany, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1689/01/19 Pagination: 1p. + docket 16 x 19.7 cm Order a Copy

Livingston, having sold the effects of the late Mons. Salovy, paid Albany Constables [Fannes?], Wessel von Broeck, and Philip Forest the entire sum for those effects.

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