Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER S 955
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE February 28, 1794
AUTHOR Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
RECIPIENT John Bradstreet Schuyler
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Sarah (“Sally”) Rutsen Schuyler, “sister”,
PLACES Saratoga, Rhinebeck, “Lower Mill”, “Banks of the River”,
KEYWORDS timber, planks and boards, milling wood, rafting timber, building at
new “situation”
My dear Brother__
I am under the necessity of asking / a favor from you tho I am fearfull that it will / be attended with trouble_ but can promise / you if at any time you should want my / services nothing shall withhold them_
Since my return I have purchased a situa- / tion mighty gratifying to my wishes, and / now want immediately to commence build- / =ing and must therefore solicit from you all / the Rufage Plank and Boards you pofsibly / can spare & if any person should have any at / the Lower Mill may engage them for me / and more the trouble, I will unfeignedly thank / you if you could procure for me upon the / Banks of the River so situated as that I could / conveniently get upon the Board Raft the / Timber
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specified in the following List~ viz.
1st A sufficient number of Large pieces 24 feet Long to / be saw’d in to pieces of 4 by 10 for Beams, to make / in all 38__ you should know the Dimention + then / calculate that they do not slit to waist /
2d Pieces as above to make 70 Beams 20 feet Long
3d do____ do____ do____ 42 do____ 24 do_ do } [sideways - all 4 by 10]
4th do____ do____ do____30 do____ 26 do_ do }
and four pieces forty two feet Long for Plates _________ /
I will trouble you no more; I would not give you / this But it is impossible for me to get Timber here / Let it be good Pine, such as is most approved of / for work of the Kind _ pray my dear Brother / do not forget me as it will put me a year / Back a matter of no Small lofs to a man who / Lives as confin'd as myself _ I will be up / when it will be time to Raft them & attend / to the Business myself, and rely upon / my discharging the Account at the Time /
Sally joins in present’g our best respects / to sister & yourself I am DB Yours+c+c /
Philip J Schuyler
Feby 28 1794
[ADDRESS]
John, B, Schuyler Esq’r
Mr. Mancious will /
Be kind enough to forw’d this / } Saratoga
Immediately
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Ph: Schuyler
28 FEb’y 1794
RynebeckTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
