Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1718 D - note 2nd page image crooked
OBJECT NAME Receipt
DATE April 22, 1783 and November 11, 1783
AUTHOR Lewis Delavergne Esq’r
RECIPIENT Pierre Van Cortlandt
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE [Shance Pattson?],
PLACES Peekskill, “nine partners” (a place near Millbrook, NY)
KEYWORDS oxen, “nine partners”
This day I bought a pr. Of Oxen of / Lewis Delavergne [^Esq’r] for fourty pounds / and have paid him In part Thirty pounds / Two Shillins and four pence Remains / nine pounds Seventeen shillins and Eight / pence to be paid unto him or his order / Some time between this and harvest / next by me Pierre Van Cortlandt /- /
Nine Partners
April 22 1783
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Peeks Kill Nov’r 11, 1783 _
The Rec’d of the Hono’l Pierre Van Cortlandt [?? image cut off] / The With[^ in] Sum of Nine pounds Seventeen shillin / & Eight In full In Behalf of Lewis Delaverge Esq’r /
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£ 9 - 17 - 8 -
[Shane Pattson?]
[LABEL]
Paid Infull
Nov 11 _ 1783
[PENCIL]
At / Nine PartnersTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
