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CATALOG NUMBER V 1812
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE August 19, 1803
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt I
RECIPIENT Pierre Van Cortlandt II
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mary Arding, Mr Brotherson, Mr VerPlanck, [“Rensuhn?”], Aerie
Michael (see also? V 1716 E), “and some other negro”, Mr Beach,
“P Wyck”, Ishamel, John Spoke, Joanna Livingston VC (“your
mother”), “Crotons”, “Old Tom”, Sarah, Stephen, Nancey, her
parents, Doctor Post, Catharine VC Van Wyck, Mr & Mrs Garrison,
Captain Conklyn,
Possible Mary Arding: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MM35-1S3
Possible will of her brother/relative: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/5082012:8800?tid=&pid=&queryid=f0fe85d2-6061-4649-9336-d03738caf3f3&_phsrc=SQj170&_phstart=successSource (note Verplanck ref and nephew Charles Webb)
PLACES the mills, New Ark, Croton, Long Island, “the plains”, New York
CIty,
KEYWORDS death of widow Mary Arding, construction/ repair of carriage, salt
grass, high tides, the feaver (yellow fever), Philip building a Road,
[JUDD VOL III, 123-24]
Dr Son Pierre
I wrote Last to your Sifter Wherein I Mentioned of the / Death of the Widow Mary Arding Since Which Mr Brothersons / overseer has been here to the mill he told me last Evening that / Mr V Planck and the family were at Brothersons that they all left the / house as soon as they hear that Mary was dead She died Tuesday / after noon they goot Rens-[ehn?] that Lives by the gate to Make the / Coffen and Mr Taylor with the afsiftence of Aerie [Aarie?] Michael and some other negro buried her the same day, I have not heard anything farther since,
I have Just now wrote to Mr Beach to let me Know / about your Carriage where it was; and that I would Send for / it Even should it be at New Ark (I don’t suppose it is as yet / finifshed) ate that I wo’d [^ send] the pay for it that I Expected / his answer by the first Oppertunity by the Mail
If I hear nothing from him Soon or from P Wyck / I purpose to send Ishamel or some one Else with the / horses and Carriage (which John spoke has Inspected) Some / time the next week Perhaps On thursday Next or Should it / be Cool wether it may be Sooner, Your mother and I Intend to / go to Crotons as soon as it will Sute us, The tides have Run high / Shall Cut the Salt grafs to morrow. Old Tom is but poorly / Sarah is here, Stephen is Come home, Nancey it is like is With her / Parents Doc’r Post is gone to Long Island Unwell, your brother is to be / here On Sunday, he has nearly finifhed his Road, your Sifter Catharine / Went to the plains, Mr & Mrs Garrison Are Expected here this day / In their way home, the feaver prevails In New York All the market Vefsels / are Crowded with people from the Citty It is a Malancolly time there / now. Cap’t: Conklyn is not to go again, says from 14 to twenty die daily / wee hope this may find you and all friends Enjoying health And happinefs / With our Respects to them All Am Your Loving Father
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Tuesday
Aug’t: 19 - 1803
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[ADDRESS]
Coll’l: Pierre Van Cortlandt
Albany
[Cr] mail }Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
