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CATALOG NUMBER V 1716 B
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE June 9, 1784
AUTHOR Samuel Verplanck
RECIPIENT Pierre Van Cortlandt
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mr. [Roney - Rooney?]], Mr. Dykman,
PLACES Fishkill
KEYWORDS removal of a building, construction of new building, back rent
owed, vouchers,
Dear Sir
I must take the Liberty of referring / the inclosed application to you; I do not / remember that any Exprefs permission was ever / given to Mr. [Roney] to remove the buildings, tho’ / I perfectly recollect his mentioned that he had / purchased the house and had been at the expense / of an addition to it _ and I believe intimated / that he expected to remove it _ Upon the whole / from the account I have had of it; I cannot / think it of any great disadvantage _ As it may / eventually prove a means of Mr. Dykman’s erecting / a better building, more to his conveniency and / to the credit of the Estate. ___ Now that Mr / [Roney] has take care of his own Interest, I hope / he will remember that of two years rent, but / ten pounds has been paid, and that I have / hitherto in vain expected the vouchers for the /
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Wood that has been cut and other property taken / for publick use ___
Whatever Indulgence you may think / proper to grant Mr Dykman in regard / to his application will be perfectly agreable, / to Dear Sir Your most humble Ser’t
Samuel Verplanck
P.S. The family Join me / in respectful complements / to Mr. Cortland Mr + Mrs Beekman ___
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[ADDRESS]
To
The Hon:’ble Pierre Van Cortland Esqr.
At
Peekskil
Samuel Ver Planck’s
Letter
[LABEL]
Samuel Ver
Plancks
LetterTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
