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CATALOG NUMBER V 1716 F
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE March 4, 178[7?]
AUTHOR Samuel Verplanck
RECIPIENT Pierre Van Cortlandt
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mr. Dyckman, General Schuyler, Mr. Beekman, Mr. Rooney, Mr.
Dusenbury, Isaac [Lane], Mrs. Cortlandt,
PLACES Verplanck farm, Fishkill,
KEYWORDS Rent of farm, heir will come of age in 5 years, terms of rent, paid in
specie, timber, planting, apple trees,
Dear Sir
Mr. Dyckman has just now / delivered your Letter, which informs me / of the agreement you have in part made / with him by the joint concurrence of General / Schuyler and Mr. Beekman for the hire of / the farm as the point. I take it for granted / that Mr. Rooney has informed you of an / intention to quit the place and that you / are apprised that a Mr. Dusenbury and / Isaac [Lane] have severally applied for it, /
You are so well acquainted with the / value of the farm that I dare not hazard / on opinion Upon the Terms, further then / I think we cannot with any propriety / rent if for longer then five years; at which / period the heir to the estate will be of age. / The Terms then will be as follows ___
Five years at the yearly Rent of fifty / pounds in specie at the rate it now pafses / paid in half yearly payments, and the / Tenant to pay all the Taxes. __________
Nor to plough more then fifty acres / yearly, nor to sow the same land with / winter grain oftner than Once in three / years ___ To fence with Old Timber / either standing or lying and not /
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To waste of any young Timber / to suffer no wood to be removed from / the premifses __ to plant out and / surround with a sufficient fence on / the second year two hundred apple / Trees and as many more on the third / year for which he is to be allowed at the / expiration of the term for every thriving / Tree the sum of two shillings; and all / such buildings, fences +c +c as he shall / find is convenient to need to revert to / the Landlord at the expiration of the Lease /
He is to allow pasture for one horse / during the summer season __
Shou’d this Agreement be carried into / effect I must beg you wou’d be so kind / to direct a lease to be drawn up / accordingly. With respectfull comp’s / from the family to Mrs. Cortland and / family I am with regard
Dear Sir. Your most humble Ser’v
Samuel Verplanck
Fishkills March y 4’h 178[7?]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
