Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1727 F
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE May 23, 1789
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt (I)
RECIPIENT Philip Van Cortlandt (son)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mr. Gabriel, Abraham Pelts, [John] “Grist”, Dr. Cooper, Lefferts,
PLACES New York, Poughkeepsie, Albany, Croton
KEYWORDS mine at Anthony’s nose, urgency to get family involved,
Later day May. [??]: 23 - 1789
Son Philip
Mr Gabriel has wrote to Abraham Pelts that / he [^ had] hear me say I wordered that he had not Come / for the Lease as the Season was favorable now / to go to work and advised him to Come down / soon, as I proposed going from home for a Time / therefore the sooner he Came the better as he / Mr Gabriel was on unnecfsasary Expenses here / this was with the Last stage so that Expect / them here Every day. Gabriel has seen the / Lease and says it will be Joyfull new to / them that they will or Can expect it no stronger / now I wo’d advise you to go to our Couz’n: and / do the best with them you Can for I am determi= / =ned as soon as I have given the Lease to go / to work on the part of [^ Philip and] William Cortlandt if no / further and will take away as much of the / oar as I Can with my own strenght. You Can / think of this and Let me Know you Oppinion am /
Yours &c Pierre Van Cortlandt
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Grist is Come and Says the Company / are Coming in a barge So that I must / Stay for them,
Grist has made an Efsay of the Oar / in the presents of two Gentlemin from / New York, Lately at Poghkeepsie / It will now Run Like Wild fire / as a number want to be Concerned / There; don’t neglect one moment to git / it one way or the other secured by the / Cortlandt family Write a similar Lease / Ready if not for 7 years than 5 or 3 / To that a fair tryal may be made – / if the family don’t Come into it than it / must Lay as it is and the Oar will / be daily more proved which will made/ it more difficult delay is dangerous
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Since I wrote what goes before Abram Pelts / has been with me and he Mr Gabriel & Grist / have Executed the Leases and Deposited them into Doc’r / Coopers hands untill the other Persons Conserned Come / down with a promise that Lafferts whos is Comming / down next Saturday Shall bring the Paper I signed at / Albany with him or they are not to proceed and / I Expect they will bring Every thing wanting / with them they were Exceedingly well pleased / with the Lease and Confefsed Every thing was done / to bargain. Pelts was sorry that Lefferts was not here / to give me up the paper it was put in his hand that / Van Dyke should have no Claim, I told them that I / wo d not stand to the Lease unlefs that paper was here / however I hope all for the best. Now it only Re / =mains with you to Secure me and As I wrote / to you before Must urge it Again to do it And if / the Couz’n: don’t Agree the work must stop which will / be great dammage to those that are Concerned and / will be hurting my Interest as I did it to git a discovery / for the benefit of the family this mine was Knowing it / the year 1758 git a Lease for it if One for 3 years only / am yours &c Pierre Van Cortlandt
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[ADDRESS’
General Cortlandt
Crotons
[LABEL - PENCIL]
[??] - PVC
Mine
1789Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
