Letter from Aaron Ward to Philip G. Van Wyck, 1831
Entry/Object ID
HHV 002.268
Description
Letter containing repeated request to purchase waterfall near Quaker Bridge with land.
Subject
real estate
Subject Person/Organization
Aaron Ward, Philip Gilbert Van Wyck
Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Sing Sing
Context
July 21, 1831
Collection
Van Cortlandt Manuscript Collection
Transcription
Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 1271
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE July 21, 1831
AUTHOR Aaron Ward
RECIPIENT Philip Gilbert Van Wyck
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE General Pierre Van Cortlandt,
PLACES Sing Sing (Ossining), the “Quaker bridge”, waterfall
KEYWORDS 2nd request to purchase waterfall near Quaker Bridge with land.
Some day ago I wrote to you requesting your to give / me the terms upon which you would sell the water fall / near the Quaker bridge with 50 or 75 or 100 acres of land / embracing both sides of the river but as yet I have rec’d / no answer, will you do me the favour to reply to it / or if it should be more convenient I will thank you / to call + see me to morrow morning by 9 oclock as / the Gen’t who wish the terms are desirous of / having them immediately. The object of the G’t who / wish to purchase is to erect immediately a / respectable manufacturing establishment. Do not / fail to let me know immediately
July 21st 1831 Yours +c
Ward
P.G. Van wyck Esq’r
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[LABEL]
Aaron Ward Esq’r
July 21 1831
[ADDRESS]
P. G. Van [page torn]
