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CATALOG NUMBER V 1727 M
OBJECT NAME Letter (partial)
DATE May 19, 1789
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt (I)
RECIPIENT Abraham Pelts
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Enoch Billingham, Cortlandt cousins,
PLACES Anthony’s Nose,
KEYWORDS inducement to son Philip to promote Anthony’s Nose mine to
cousins,
I write this Last of all / Since the other part Enoch Billingham / has brought me a piece of Silver which / he Refined in his forge from a small piece / of Oar suppos [^ 2] [Oz. &] worth [9’d-] or there abouts / It is no [ablase] all over. I make no / doubt but it is as Rich a mine as Ever / Was Discover And should not the Greatest / deligence be used In Order to Secure an / Equal part to my Self who is the Only / promoter of it and that with his own / Right for the benifit of the family / Therefore use your utmost Endeavors / to git the Cortlandts if on no other Term / than that Each of us Shall have an / Equal part with paying Equal Cost / 200 ₤ will gain perhaps - 2 - with as many
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[O’s] as you may add, there is no Knowing / the Value of it. And Should I have / owr Couz’n: part on the same Lay as I / have put out mine, Gratitude Could / Always hereafter make Compensation / All that I want is to Secure my own / Right, prefs hard for it so that / the work may [^ not] stop if it does Confusion / and Difagreement fallow. I wo’d come / down to you but have no saddle and / Cannot Hardly Leave home Think / seariously of what I have now / wrote in this packet and do as your / Judgment shall direct, a diligent / hand maketh Rich
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
