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CATALOG NUMBER V 1716 E
OBJECT NAME Letter (Original Copy)
DATE March 7, 1785
AUTHOR Samuel Verplanck
RECIPIENT Pierre Van Cortlandt
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Colonel Hay, Mr. Benson, Mr. Rooney, [Arie]
PLACES Peekskill, New York City,
KEYWORDS a “negro fellow” Arie (soldier in Continental Army Revolutionary
War), prisoner of war, fire wood, vouchers, “Continental Service”
BENSON: https://www.green-wood.com/2024/revolutionary-war-biographies/
also(see page 540): Robert Benson and Pierre Van Cortlandt overlap
https://nyplorg-data-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/documents/inventory/collection_2251_Clintonv31.pdf
SOURCE MATERIAL: Thelma Wills Foote, Black and White Manhattan
https://archive.org/details/blackwhitemanhat0000foot/page/154/mode/2up?q=van+cortlandt
Dear Sir
I take the Liberty of inclosing to you copies / of the accounts of the property taken from the point / together with two Letters on the subject from Coll / Hay and Mr. Benson _ By this time (I hope) Mr / Rooney will have (I hope) obtained Vouchers for / the fire wood that has since been cut for the [Port?] / at West Point _ You’ll be pleased to take Notice / that in there accounts no mention is made of a / negroe fellow named [Arie] who was enlisted in the / Continental Service taken prisoner and as we are / informed dyed in the Provost.
You are the best judge to determine if it / wou’d be proper to follow Mr Benson’s Advice of / sending a person to Albany, to get these matters / Liquidated; if so I shou’d Imagine it wou’d be / most Advisable, at same time to send the / Vouchers that Mr Rooney shall have procured / so as to have the Whole Affair settled at once.
With respectfull [^ complements] of All here to your good self / Mrs. Cortland, Mr. + Mrs. Beekman. I am / with Esteem. Dear Sir. your most humble Ser’t
Sam’l: Verplanck
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Sam’l V Planck
I ITranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishNotes
Provost: https://nycrevolutionarytrail.org/library/prison
