Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1805 B
OBJECT NAME Letter (draft)
DATE May 10, 1810
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt II
RECIPIENT Peter Curtenius (U.S. Marshall Southern District NY)
https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/nyhs/ms142_peter_curtenius/
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE John Jones
PLACES New York City, Westchester County, Cortlandt,
KEYWORDS census of 1810, recommendation of John Jones as Westchester
County census taker,
[JUDD VOL III, pages 328-29]
Sir
Your Letter of the 7th Instant I received by the / last mail. I am much obliged to you [^ I esteem it a mark of great friendship] for the Confidence / you have been pleased to place in me to Recommend a / Person in the whom I maybe of Opinion is qualified to take / the Censis of the County of West Chester _ And so / therefore agreable to your Request Recommend Mr John / Jones of the Town of Cortlandt as a Person every way / qualified for to perform that Trust. He is [^ an] Honest, in= / dustrious, discreet and Sencisble man – Indeed I know / He is a mear Neighbour and esteemed by me very / highly. Besides his information of the County is very [^ quite] / extensive _ If it is your Wish that Mr Jones to See / [page torn] Mr Jones foon If you [^ and] will write me I will men - / [page torn] it to him that he may call upon you to Receive / [page torn] -pointment + Instruction
I am with great Esteem +
Respect Your Ob’t + hum S’t
PVC Jr.
May 10 - 1810
Peter Curtenius Esq’r
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[INCIRCLED]
Free
Geo. C. [??]
[ENDORSED]
Col’o Pierre Van Cortlandt Junior
Peeks Kill
New York
[LABEL 1 -[REVERSE]
Peter Curtenius Letter
& answer May 10, 18180
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On Cencus in
Westchester Co.
[LABEL 3]
Peter Curtenius’
Letter About ap -
Pointing a Person
To take the Census
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In Westchester Co.
May 1810Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
