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CATALOG NUMBER VC 3116 a-b
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE [March 14] 1849
AUTHOR Catherine (“Cate”) Beck Van Cortlandt
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/KXX8-YFH
RECIPIENT Dr. Theodore Romine Beck M D
MEDIUM paper, ink
PEOPLE Mrs Decker, Helen (Helen Louise Beck Parmelee), Pierre Van
Cortlandt III, “John” ?, “the general’s men” (??), [“Louis”?], William
??, Samuel Mason (Ossining), Jerry Fowler (brother of Mason?),
[“Corbeire?], Nancy ?? and the children, David Horton, Samuel
Merrit (deceased),
Possible Samuel Mason: https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/KHTB-56Z
PLACES [“Roa”? Hook, strip by the brook, New York City, Peekskill,
Ossining, Albany Post Road
KEYWORDS caring for Mrs Deceker after childbirth, “seriously considering
taking a diploma”, “the Irish”, husband owes money so she asks father permission/advice to sell a piece of property she own, map of Roa Hook complete and sent to NY to be lithographed, PVC III money issues?, railroad business, waiting for the river to open so she can see family, boundaries of proposed property sale
Land Assessment Beck/Mason 1849:
Catherine: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7WV1-7PPZ?lang=en
Father: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:74DZ-QVT2?lang=en
Pierre https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7WTM-LV2M?lang=en
Saturday
My dear Father
Mrs Decker has been so / ill that I have not really had time / to be home long enough to sit down / or I should have written to Helen and / you the early part of the week __ she / has had the worst kind of [puerperal] / convulsions, and since delivery has been / perfectly wild until this morning. I / seriously think of taking a diploma / for they send me all about the / neighbourhood, and the [Irish] all / want “my lady to say what to do for / the [??ilegible?]” and such a / [illegible?] of [speeches] As I have gathered / for Helen is a caution as the yankees / say. – – You know my little piece of /
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Property opposite here, a man who Pierre / owes $650.00 to, wishes to buy a piece of / it, just the strip with the brook and he / offers $600. So I think best to sell it / as if I dont, he will want the money, / and its real value is about $300. – I never / should have had the [face] to ask more. – / Pierre will either give me a note or a / piece of Roa - Hook, but I dont suppose / I shall shall be a very strict creditor. / The map of Roa- Hook is completed and / gone to New York to be lithographed - / The generals men are arranged with, / that is their accounts are made up and / are much lefs than supposed at first. / every thing goes pretty smoothly _ John / is most of the time at Peekskill, [??-ing?] / up all Pierre’s old long weary [??] / and docking off all he can _ he says / it is wholesale robbery _ the [game?] that / has been carried on over at Roa - Hook _ / [Louis?] has not yet attended to the Rail
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Road business _ Do please jog his memory / I send a paper with advertisements _ I / thin kyou have my deed for the property / over the river and please let William make / out this deed as soon as pofsible [must] / sign it and send it. – The man’s / name is “Samuel Mason of the town / of Ofsining” —
It is not to him we owe the / money, his brother Jerry Fowler [one] old / [??illegible] having transferred his debt to / him _ but of course this has nothing / to do with the deed. _ I did not draw for the $50, as I owe so much in / Albany _ [Corbiere?] sent his bill to Pierre / Please let him know I will attend to / it _ it is $53.00 — I am dying for / the rive to open, as I hope to see you / all, There is a good deal here to do, and / I want to consult you about some / investments __ I think you, Helem Wm /
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And the children had better come / down as soon as the boats [run] / Nancy and the children have most / wretched colds. __ I send the boundaries / on the other side they want “ licking into / “shape” but that his ‘honor’ can do. — /
I will write to Helen to day or to - morrow / now good bye with love to Grandma and / all —
Yr. aff. Daughter
Cate –
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[ILLUSTRATION OF BOUNDARY LINES - proposed Roa Hook sale]
[Albany Post Road, hemlock tree, David Horton’s house, cedar tree, Croton River, Samuel Merrit deceased property]
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All the piece [parcel?] [is?] situate in the town / of Ofsining, [+c.] __ being Bounded as / follows, commencing at a Hemlock tree / adjoining the Albany Post Road marked / A, standing 35 ft from the S.E. corner / of the house now occupied by David Horton, / Thence Westerly 225 ft to a cedar tree mark / -ed by a crofts, to high water mark —- / Thence southerly along high water mark / to a drilled rock at the [N] side of the brook being 55 ft. — Thence southerly / along high water mark to land [^ formerly] belong / -ing to Sam’l Merrit deceased _ Thence / Easterly along said land to the Albany / P. Road, Thence easterly southeryly [^ northerly] and / Westerly along said Post Road to place of / beginning being three acres more or lefs ___Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
