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CATALOG NUMBER V 1807 A
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE December 24, 1801 [also Dec 14?]
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt I
RECIPIENT Rufus King
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Henry Beekman, Gerturyd Van Cortlandt Beekman, James
Delancey, (his son in law) Thomas Jones,
PLACES New York, England, London
KEYWORDS antinuptial contract, “minister plenipotentiary”, effort to resolve
lawsuit regarding inheritance of Gertrude Beekman,
Sir
There was formerly An Instrument Called An / Antinuptial Contract Between Coll Henry Beekman / and Gertruyd Van Cortlandt put into the hands of / the Lieutenant Governer James Delancey to be Kept / by him Untill Called for, And as his papers fell into / the hands of his Son in law Thomas Jones his son in / Law one of the Judges of the then Province of New York / who went to England And Died there, and as [^ I] Know of / no one in England to make application to Therefore / Shall take it as the Greatest friendship to me if you / Would take the Troble And make such Enquiery Either / of Judge Jones’s family or the family of Coll. James Delancey / So that the Instrument may be found and sent to me / It would without [^ doubt] Settle matters So as to put an End to a / Tedious and Expencive family Law Suit Which I have been / Obliged to Commence as Executor to the Will of the / Late Gertruyd Beekman, I hope Sir you Will Excuse / this freedom from me; And am with the Greatest Respect
Your most Obedient and Verry
Humble Ser’t
Pierre Van Cortlandt
His Excellency
Rufus King Esq’r
Minifter Plenipotentiary
From the United States
London
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Decemb’r 24, 1801
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Dec 14. 1801Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
