Letter from Charles Snowden (for M[atilda] Snowden) to Philip Gilbert Van Wyck, 1845
Entry/Object ID
HHV 002.283
Description
Letter from Charles Snowden (for M[atilda] Snowden) to Philip Gilbert Van Wyck, 1845
Subject
drainage, neighbor relations
Subject Person/Organization
Philip Gilbert Van Wyck
Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Sing Sing
Context
March 8, 1845
Collection
Van Cortlandt Manuscript Collection
Transcription
Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 1287
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE March 8, 1845
AUTHOR Charles Snowden (for M[atilda] Snowden)
RECIPIENT Philip Gilbert Van Wyck
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Dr Brandeth,
PLACES “The Willows”, Grove Hill
Possible “Charles Snowden House” at 1 Matilda Street, Ossining NY
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KEYWORDS dispute with neighbors over drainage
The Willows 8th March 1845
Dr Sir
I must again call attention to the water / artificially brought thro your grounds _ + discharged upon the / road leading in front of our Garden to your house + Dr Brandeths / In “the right of way” which you have in that road - there is no / right given or implied to use it for any other purpose. Nei -/ ther ourselves nor Dr. B would object to your making a covered / sluice to conduct the water from the point where you have / made it to fall into the road _ making the sluice directly / or Even somewhat obliquely acrofs the road + so getting rid of / this water _ by discharging it there into the River. This would / Effectually answer your convenience _ + avoid injuring us / as it is you must see that it does injure us seriously. The water / pafsing along the foot of our fence _ undermines the bank on the / margin on which it stands + the Evil in constantly Encreated by / [^ the necessity of ] your cleaning away the dirt that falls from the bank + chokes / up the ditch you made for the pafsage of the water and thus
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Our fence _ which cost a great deal _ is almost uprooted _ de / :destroyed. As a neighbour + friend I feel persuaded you will / at once see the reasonablenefs + nicenefs of this call _ + relieve / us from further injury _ In hopes of an Early answer,
I remain Dr Sir Yr [fr’r??] + Obt: Sv’t
C. Snowden
For M Snowden
P.G. Van Wyck Esq:
[ADDRESS]
Phillip G. Van Wyck Esq:
Grove Hill
[LABEL]
C. Snowden
8 March 1845
About Drain
[??]
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