Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 1980
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE January [??] 1810
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt
RECIPIENT “Cortlandt” (Pierre Cortlandt Van Wyck)
MEDIUM paper, ink
PEOPLE “Unkles”, the Chancellor, Henry Beekman, Pierre Van Cortlandt,
Gertrude Beekman, Col. Beekman,
PLACES
KEYWORDS Livingston suit (“Livinston sute”),
Dr Cortlandt
Your Unkles have Informed me that / the Livinston Sute was put of for / Certain Reasons, And that Another / method is to be taken Immediately / So as to Make a final Settlement of / Thereof - Sometime ago, I wrote the / Chancellor that my Council had Let me / Know that they had got Judment on the / Bond Given by Henry Beekman To Pierre / Van Cortlandt the monies tee [^ to] be applyed / as is directed by the Will of Gertruyd / Beekman Dec’d, And that a Mr Livingston / Said [This], application must be made to the / Chancellor _ I wrote him the Above / and that I should be happy that the / money was paid soon so that I might / make a Dividend Among the Legatees / Who were anxious and prefsing for it / and as the monies must ultimately /
[END OF PAGE 1]
Be pad out of Coll Beekmans Estate / and as i was then in my 86 year of Age / I should be happy to see it done in / [^ my time] Am Dr Sr with great Respect yours
affectionately
Most obd’t Sevt PVC
Dec’r 18 - 1809
[NB] the Letter I wrote the Chancellor / Sometime ago And his Answer thereto / I sent both to you And Desired you / to file them with the Other papers / Relating the Sute
It
Dr C
[LABEL]
Copy of Letter
To Pierre C Van Wyck
Jany 1810
About the Livingston
SuitTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
