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CATALOG NUMBER S 956
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE February 3, 1791
AUTHOR Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
RECIPIENT John B. Schuyler, Esq.
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Sarah (“Sally”) Rutsen Schuyler, “child” [Philip P. Schuyler, first
son], Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler (“Mama”), Philip John Schuyler (“papa”),
PLACES Saratoga, “Giles’s”, Rhinebeck, “Lower Mill”, “Banks of the River”,
KEYWORDS saw mill, timber milling, planks and boards,
Dear Brother
I am sorry it is not in my / power to pay you a visit at Saratoga_ & / in person make my request. I shall want / in the Spring about 100 pine Plank and / 300 Boards if it will be in your power to / saw them for [^ me] please to inform me by / letter, we shall see each other by Spring / and will devise for their transportation /
Mama particularly enjoins you / to go your self to Giles's and see wether / the wood papa engaged is likely to be / sent forward if not she must purchase / her supply here in season, it will be necef- / =sary to inform her soon_
I left Sally & the child well, she desired me / to give her Love to yourself Phill & Eliza /
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= accept of mine in the fullest mann[er?]
Your Aff’ Brother
&Hm Ser’t
Philip JSchuyler
Albany Feb’y 3d 1791
John B Schuyler Esq’r
[REVERSE OF ADDRESS]
Ph. J. Schuyler
Rynebeck 3 Feby
1791 _Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
