Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1716 P
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE June 2, 1787
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt
RECIPIENT Samuel Verplanck
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Jeremiah Ellis, Hendrik Brown, his son-in-law, Mrs. Cortland, the
[Couzens], Philip Fields [also Pheilds], Mary [Huson?]
PLACES Fishkill,
KEYWORDS farm, tenancy, “miner’s request”,
Dear Sir
Hendrick Brown has taken the farm Where / on Jeremiah Ellis did Live [^ For his Son In Law,] on the Same Lay that Ellis / had It and desires to be Entered for the Rent book accord-[^ ingly] / Brown to be accountable for the Rent.
I have [written over Did] [^ Send you Coppy of] An Inventory taken of What / Philip Fields has Left In Order to Secure the Rent that is / due On the farm. Which I herewith send you, Please to let / me Know the [^ Amount] Mary [Huson?] Who Lived with Philip Phields / has been with me, to Keep the farm, I told her I wo’d / acquaint you therewith and that she Could [written over Have it] year / as she and the boys had [^ a Crop of] Grain on the farm, to Secure / and that the Rent wo’d be at least twenty pounds, which / hope may be approved of She promised to be Pun[c?]tual / Mrs Cortlandt Joins In Our Respects to you & the Couzens / am with Sinceer Regard Dr Sir
Your verry Hum’l: Ser’t
I omitted to acquaint Mr V Planck / of the Miners Request ___
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Coppy sent
Sam’l Ver Planck
June 2 1787
[END OF PAGE 2]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
