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CATALOG NUMBER V 1780 - IMAGE CROOKED, TWO DOCS IN ONE
OBJECT NAME Letter, Letter 2
DATE May 8, 1794
Letter 2: May 13, 1794
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt I
Letter 2: Philip Van Cortlandt
RECIPIENT Philip Van Cortlandt
Letter 2: Pierre Van Cortlandt I
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mr. [Egbert] Benson, Mr. [Samuel] Jones, David Gelston,
[Thomas] Thomas, [General Matthew] Clarkson, Pierre Van
Cortlandt II, Pierre Van Wyck, Captain [Samuel] Lawrence,
Benjamin Saltz,
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCXZ-Z66
PLACES Westchester County, New York City, Philadelphia
KEYWORDS Chancery Court, “Cross Bill”, financial dispute, election, reply,
timber, embargo
[JUDD VOL. II page 542-45]
New York may 8. 1794
Dr Son Philip
I am now here and have been with Mr Benson / and Jones who think it best to withdraw the Crofs bill which / is now Depending in the Chancerry Court. I am Convinced that / if Justice Could be Come at That There must be a Large Sum of / money due to me from Mr Cortlandt but as that Cannot be Come / at I am Obliged to Acquiest with the Oppinion of my Council / who have Advised me to do it. Altho with much Reluctance.
Now the next thing that is to be done; is, to see that / the money be Ready for to make payment And how to git / it I do not at Present Know. There is money Enough due / to me by mortgage but that Cannot be Come at Unlefs adver= / tising six months publicly which I should be Loath to do you / will therefor take some thought about it and Afsit me in doing / and given your advise about it So that I need not Come to any / more troble and anxiety In my Advanced years. I hope I may / Receive Your Answer to this soon with Such Advise as will / Extricate me out of this Difficulty Which it seem Justice will / not. I Left your mother Last Munday She was well. Pierre is / somewhere in town I have but Just seen him he is to go up this / day he told me this morning that the whole ticket in West Chefter / County would go in David Gelston its generally said will be one of / the Senators. I think it Lays now between Thomas and Clarkson for / the other, I am Just going home with Cap’t Lawrence as far as the / Mills, Pierre V Wyck is with me Am with much Regards your
Affectionate Father
Pierre Van Cortlandt
NB The Mills at / Peeks Kill are at / work the go Compleatly
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[LETTER 2]
Philadelphia May. 13 1794
Your favour of the 8th I have received / & have observed your remarks on the Chancery Suit +c / and since there is no profpect of obtaining Justice / it will be prudent to Make the best terms you Can / and pay it off, ___ + as to best [^ the most Eligable] way to raise the / Cash I am not [^ at present] prepared to advise but will think / of it and write you soon however it will not / be long before I Expect to see you as it is now / Expected Congrefs will rise the Week after next / we then Shall have a better opportunity of consulting / and determining what measures to pursue —- / and as I make no doubt but the seeming / Dificulties will be Easily surmounted when / the Sholder is put to the Wheal My advice / to you is not to take much thoughts about / it untill I see you as much thinking / will only unjust you not be productive / of any good Consequences but may occafsion / Uneafinefs –
I thank you for the information/ you give relative the Election and shall / be much Obliged to Pierre if he will write / to me particularly —
I am glad to hear that the / mills go on well and hope to hear when / Pierre writes that the Logs wee bought are at / the Saw mill and that Benj’m: Salts is at / work I make no doubt but lumber Will be / high this fall or when Ever the Embargo is / taken off —---- with my Love and / best respects I remain Your Dutifull / Son
Ph. V. Cortlandt
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[LABEL]
Father on the Chancery Suit +
Answer . May 13, 1794
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[ADDRESS]
Philip Van Cortlandt Esq’r
Representative
In Congrefs
Philadelphia
[POSTAGE STAMP]
N YORK May 8
[POSTAGE STAMP 2]
FREETranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
