Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 1748 A
OBJECT NAME fragment of letter
DATE n.d.
AUTHOR “Magadalen Stevenson”, “Mother”)
Magdalena Douw Stevenson: https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/d/magdouw2152.html
Mother-in-law to Pierre Van Cortlandt (II)
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/K4TV-XMW
RECIPIENT Anne Stevenson (wife of Pierre Van Cortlandt)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Nancy, the doctor, Mr Nell, Pierre Van Cortlandt (“Mr. VC”),
PLACES
KEYWORDS description of death of Nancy?,
Both familys are well and desire to be / Remembered to you [^ &] Mr VC as Does
Your Affectionate
Mother
Magdalen Stevenson
Excuse this scrib-’^b]-ling
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He still [page torn]
Of himself. I afsu- [page torn]
To hear that there is some hopes of -[page torn]
Recovery _ It is a happy Death when we Die with / full assurance of Salvation, o may it be your / and my case when Called _ Nancy was / very Delirious, the Doctir told [^ her] she must prepar / her Self, her time was Short, She told [^ him] she had / taken a bad Cold, She did not think she / [page cut off] Die of it; so she told Me Nell, I told her /
[page cut off] -ore runner of Death and /
[page cut off] - repantanceTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
