Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 2087 B
OBJECT NAME Letter (draft?)
DATE February 2, [1804]
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt
RECIPIENT A. Comstock
MEDIUM paper, ink
PEOPLE
PLACES Peekskill, turnpike, Fishkill, Kingsbridge, Croton River
KEYWORDS proposal to turn pike at Fishkill,
Dr Sir
There is now pending in the Senate a Bill/ to form a Company to turn pike the Road from Fishkill / to Kingsbridge; The great Utility of this measure must / be obvious to every Person who has travelled that Road / [^ through] the high Lands and particularly the South Eight miles / to Riad is extremely bad nor is it pofsible for the few / Inhabitants to put it in any tolerable Repair, when / they could not keep it so after it had been / worked by the State Commifsioners in the year 1792. / The Road from this Southerly is capable of being / made an excellent Orad, provided a Turn pike was / established, without with very few alterations, but / unlefs a Company is formed it will never the Alte= / rations cannot take place nor can there be a Bridge / built over Croton River at the place con tem plated / being built to be built, which in a small & / nearly opposite to my Brothers dwelling House; /
There has been opposition made to it but I am led to / believe that opposition originated more through selfish / views than public good; Indeed some People in / the Town of Mount Pleasant have who signed a / Remonstrance against the Law pafsing have since / authorized me to write to Albany and say / that they very unad-[vicedly] signed that Remonstrance / which they now are sorry + now wish that the / Law may pafs. (Judge Purdy I have made acquainted / with their names or He knows them) As I feel / very much interested in having a good Road, which / [UPSIDE DOWN LINE NOT TRANSCRIBED] cannot be affected unlefs by a Turnpike you
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must excuse The Liberty I take in writing you upon the / Subject.
The Interest I feel in having a good road + which cannot / be affected without a Turnpike, must apologize to you / for my troubling you upon the Subject, [+ ??illegible] at the Same / time [^ that] I am well persuaded that from the Influence / you have in the Afsembly, your advocating this / thing would who may heavily ensure its Succefs / go [^ a] great length to ensure its Succefs __ __
[POSTAGE STAMP - red ink, oval]
NEW YORK
JAN
26
[ADDRESS]
Col. Pierre Van Corlandt
Peekskill __
[POSTMARK]
[10?]
[LABEL]
Letter to A Comstoc
Comstock Feb. 2, 18[04?]
[CALCULATIONS - NOT TRANSCRIBED]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
