Philip John Schuyler to Philip Jeremiah Schuyler

Name/Title

Philip John Schuyler to Philip Jeremiah Schuyler

Entry/Object ID

HHV 006.100

Subject

debts of Renssalear Schuyler, selling of farms, repayment of debts, bedridden from gout/illness

Subject Person/Organization

Philip J. Schuyler (1733-1804), Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768-1835)

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Rhinebeck, New York, Peekskill, New York

Collection

Schuyler Manuscript Collection

Letter Details

Letter Date

Dec 7, 1801

Time Period

19th Century

Transcription

Transcription

Albany Monday Dec~7~1801 My Dear Child Your favor of the 5~ Instant from / Peekskill I received this Morning_ I am willing that the farms should be sold for / the sum you state £1600, of which £600, or If pofsible / £800 to be paid down and the remainder in the Spring and to avoid the trouble and expence of Mortgages / and the risk [the/too?] least Judgements on the premifses should / be entered before the Mortgages can be recorded_ You must on receipt of the first payment / Execute an [^recipracal] agrements] with the parties that the / residue shall be paid on the f or before the last day / of may next, on which payment you will deliver my / full warrantee deeds, except against any [Alteration?Alienation] which / may have been made by the Lefsees or their afsigns / and except [^against] any Judgements which they may be against / the premifses in favor of third persons_ you will / [calulations] 1[6]00 [4]50 650 3’ I want you to leverage this b also Stipulate that If the last payment is not made / when It at the time stipulated, that the parties forfit / the first payment, unlefs the last payment is made / before the last day of June, with Interest for the last month I wish you to arrange this bufsinefs as soon as [END OF PAGE 1] pofsible and to transmit me the first payment, as / I am extreamly prefsed for money_ Your Mama &Sister are in good health and / unite with me in love to you, Sally & the Children / Adieu My Dear Child I am evermost affectionately yours Ph: Schuyler I am still confined with a swelling under my / knee, but as there is an appearance of Its / comeing speedily to a head, If It does It will / relieve me from the pain I endure, and I / shall probably soon recover the use of my legs_ [END OF PAGE 2] To Philip Jer’ Schuyler Esq’r At Rhynbeck [POSTAL NOTATION] 10 [POSTMARK - black ink, circle] ALBY NY DEC 7 [LABEL] Philip Schuyler Dec’r 7 1801_

Transcriber

Kathryn Alexander

Language

English

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Former Number

Other Number

S 946