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CATALOG NUMBER V 1727 B
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE May 16, 1789
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt (I)
RECIPIENT Philip Van Cortlandt (son)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mr Shoup, Abraham Pelt, cousins, Mama, Caty,
PLACES Anthony’s Nose
KEYWORDS mine on Anthony’s Nose, “Petiager” (a type of boat),
“Mama’s hat and band box”, preparations for retrieving ore,
furnace,
“Petiager”: https://maritimestudies.ecu.edu/wp-content/pv-uploads/sites/92/2020/01/Stem-to-Stern-Vol-20.pdf (page 18)
Later day May 16_ 1789
Son Philip
I have Rec’d: your favor by Mr Shoup since / which have sent you one by Pierre with an Efssay of / the mine hope you have not been too free in Exposing / of it: It is out of the mine where unkle Cortlandts peo: / :ple used to git Iron Oar out of for the furnace
We shall want the Petiager here to attend / when she Comes up you Can send one or two bus’l of / Potatoes for to help out the Provisions for the workman / at the mine, if there is any plank on the farm fit to / make the Causeway from the mine to the River send / what you have, I have had made two wheelbarrows / for the Purpose what is to be done must be done Immed / diately as wee dont know how far or how deep the / vein Runs therefore the sooner wee begin the better. / I am told the oar is Carried [^away] In the night The Cont= / [hookers?] are on the Coast and are apprised of it / by appearance a Great deal of oar is already Carried / away. I Long to hear from you how you have made / out with our Couz’n:s I am Determined to git out of it / as much As I pofsibly Can at all Events Let the / matter turn out as it will, I make Lite of it here / as it now is on the mouths of Every one and /
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Have not heard any thing further from Pelt / and his afsociates. Shall do nothing with them untill / I Consult you. There will be wanting for the / air furnace at Least 5 thousand brick and two hun’d: / Wt. of Iron Which wee Can git hereafter the first / work is to Secure the Oar And wee must bend our / bufsinefs wholly to it at first, all well here / with our Love +c - ‘ your Loving father.
Pierre Van Cortlandt
To Come up with the Petiager
Mamas hat and band box it is in Catys Room
Sent the Key of the door with the Stage yesterday
Potatoes
Plank if any
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[LABEL]
Pierre V. Cortladt Esq’r
May. 16. 1789 —
Relative mine on
Anthony’s nose____Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
