Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER S 3004
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE March 3, 1776
AUTHOR Philip John Schuyler
RECIPIENT Vroman and Cornue
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE
PLACES
KEYWORDS weavers, tailors, blacksmiths, carpenters, “Committee of
Schenectady”, Congress, complaint about quality of laborers,
Albany March 3d 1776
Messers Vroman & Cornue
I am again Informed that you have / Engaged Weavers, Taylors [^masons], blacksmiths and others / utterly Incompetent to the Carpenters businefs / If this be a fact you have abused my Confidence / [^and broke your promise] and do not deserve to be Employed, but as I do / not wish to Condemn unheard I have desired / the [^respectable] Committee of Schenectady and Such Gentlemen / of Congrefs as may be In [^the] town to Examine Into / It, and to discharge all such men as [^by] them shall / [^be Judged unfit for this service] Disapprove of and to name others whom you are / to Employ, I have also Impowered them If you / dislike this arrangement to dismiss you and / procure other Master Carpenters_ It will be / heedlefs for you to Call on me on the Subject as / the whole Matter will now rest [^on the determination of] with the Gentlemen / to whom I have referred It.
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March 3d: 1776
To Mefs’rs Cornue & Vrooman
Entered Feb. 27 [No. 2]
No. 300
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B.B.
No. 71.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
