Receipt for Library Subscription Payment/Daniel Birdsall/Pierre Van Cortlandt
Entry/Object ID
HHV 002.526
Subject
library subscription, Peekskill Library
Subject Person/Organization
Pierre Van Cortlandt (1721-1814)
Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Peekskill, New York
Collection
Van Cortlandt Manuscript Collection
Transcription
Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1710 S
OBJECT NAME Account
DATE December 17, 1799
AUTHOR Daniel Wm. Birdsall
RECIPIENT Pierre Van Cortlandt
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE George Tomkins
PLACES Peekskill
KEYWORDS
NOTES ON BIRDSALL:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LXSK-1FR
https://thefieldlibrary.org/about-us It is recorded that on July 16, 1796, a library was established in the village of Peekskill, with each subscriber paying sixteen shillings for the privilege of borrowing books. Daniel William Birdsall served as the first librarian from 1796-1799, as well as the village’s second postmaster, moving the post office and library to the “Birdsall House” which stood at 979 Main Street. When the Peekskill Academy was opened in May 1834, this book collection, now called the “Cortlandt Library,”
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Peeks Kill December 17 - 1799
Sir My account Against George Tomkins / is - £4=10=9 witch Sum I have Crediteed him / for and Charged you with
Your Ombel Servant
Daniel Wm. Birdsall
To Piere Van Cortlandt Esq’r
Received Peeks Skill Januar 9- 1800
Of Piere Van Cortlandt Four Pounds Ten Shillings / in full for the above accompt
£4-10-9 Daniel Wm. Birdsall
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Pierre Van Cortlandt Esq’r
Peeks Kill
[LABEL]
Dan’l: W Birdsail
Acc’t Dec’r 19 -
1799
Ag’t George Tomkins
£4-10-9
