Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1727 I
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE [May ??], 1789
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt (I)
RECIPIENT Philip Van Cortlandt (son)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Ismael, James Conklyn, “the old lady”, “Aunt”, Cousin Renssalear,
Cousin Hannah Cortlandt, John Cortlandt, his daughters, the
[Bayards], the Delancey’s, Mr. [Beiker], Aunt Beekman,
Stoutenbergh, [Corolius?], Adam Miller,
PLACES Anthony’s Nose,
This historical detail of the mine does not know of the Van Cortlandt connection since 1789.
http://www.johnbetts-fineminerals.com/jhbnyc/articles/anthys3.htm
KEYWORDS silver mine at Anthony’s Nose, local speculation, “the old lady”’s
will, “wortle”, soak Corn, female family members
Dr Son Philip
I now send Ismael down to you with / a Coppy of the Lease I gave the Company for / your Perusal and Guide in Writing one / from the family to me I hope you will / proceed as soon as pofsible and Urge / them to it all in your power. I am appre / =hensive if it is not now done, that there / will be Confusion, there has been Several / strangers to view the mine James Conklyn / xx [^ told] me, who said the mine was worth / ten miles square with all the buildings / and Improvements about Peeks Kill / and more, Tell the family that I got the / Old Lady to make her will as it is, that it was / in My power to have had the Whole if I wod / have acted Otherwise than upright, that the / mines were given to the whole family, Delancey &c / Included, as all her undivided Right, that / I got Aunt to Insert Couzn: Renfsalear and /
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Couz’n: Hannah Cortlandt In the will / Aunt first Intended that part of the / Estate for her nieces by her own sisters / that Coz’n: John Cortlandt’s daughters and / him were taken in, as the [Bayards] / and Delancey’s were difaffected, That I / Leased my part of the mine in Order / to get the discovery, and that the mine / is on my Land, and wod do Every / thing to Serve them, that there must / be great Cost be[^ fore] Any profit Can/ Arise, and any other argument that / you Can Use to Induce them so that / I may be on An Equal footing with / the Rest of the family for my goodnefs / to them that I appeal to them all for /
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What I have done for their faver / I believe I have said Enough / you will please to bring a hat for / me form Mr [Bieker]. A Little / Tobacco, and [Amefs?] of [Cruc?-]ables / am your Loving father
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Aunt Beekman gave a Lease for four / hundred acres On the nost to [Stoutenburgh] / [Corolius?], Adam Miller, and others for / twenty one years. For a Tenth, free / from all Chrages. I have the Lease
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[LABEL]
Pierre Van Cortlandt Esq’r
Relative mines on
Anthony’s Nose
— 1789 —
[POSTSCRIPT - ON SIDE]
[F-??]-efs wortle it grows in low grounds
Something like Skunk weed good
to Soak [C-[orn] in??] —-- 1789 —--
[PENCIL - illegible but looks like repeat]
[F-??]-efs wortle it grows in low grounds
Something like Skunk weed good
to Soak [C-[orn] in??] —-- 1789 —--Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
