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CATALOG NUMBER V 1781
OBJECT NAME Letter,
DATE December 7, 1795
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt I
RECIPIENT Philip Van Cortlandt
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE “Old Mr Budd”, ?? Munger, George Tompkins (mills), “your
Mother”, Captain Huson, Pierre Van Cortlandt II, Doctor, “G”,
Captain Acker, “Little Sally”, “your sister and sons”, “Tone”, Isaac
Odell, Anne De Peyster Van Cortlandt (“sister Rensalear”), Miss
Beekman, Uncle Henry
PLACES Post Road, West Point, Wapingers Creek, Philadelphia, “Crotons”,
Albany, the Mill,
KEYWORDS Budd offers to rent a farm, “Croton River Map”, “Presidents
speech to Congress”, newspapers, empty nest, raising the mills,
boat, cider, apples, “your ox team”, walnut wood, boards, “curb of
the well”, PVC I leg issue, Kitchen, mills,
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Dear Son Philip Dec’r 7 - 1795
Since you Left this Old Mr Budd who Lives on the / post Road where the Road Leads to West Point has been here his Son Wants to buy / the farm at Wapingers Creek next adjoining the farm Whereon Munger Lives to the / West he wants to Know the price and What payments Which if he Likes he says / he will go and git Rails on his fathers farm So as to fence it You will therefore - / Send you answer per first Opportunity so that he may Know how to Order his / businefs, accordingly, I have Sent you the Croton River Map which you / Enquired after When you Was here Last which you Can Compleat at your / Leasure hours . I shall be happy to hear from you by the post with the / Presidents Speech to Congrefs and Such other newspapers As you Can / Conveniently Send me it Will Amuse me much as there is but Verry / Little Company here and your mother and [^ my] Self Will be pretty Lonesome / this Winter Pierre Says he Expects to go And See you at Philadelphia and / after that to Albany So that wee shall have Little of his Company
George Tomkins is in great Expectation of Raising / the Mills Next Muday or Tuesfday if the Wether will permit, Our boat / has brought me up the Cyder, and apples She got to Crotons fryday night / took in the Articles Saturday. Came up here Sunday morning and Cap’n Huson / is busie a Loading Walnut wood so as to go down to morrow, Pierre is going / with him, your Ox Team was here Saturday and tookd own 40 Round Edge / boards for the Curb of the Well they had dug About ten feet down Mett / with Little Obstruction, if they have good stone there May be made a good / well if the well digger understands it ______ they sent for 30. I sent 40 boards
Decem’r 15 - Since I wrote the Above Pierre is Returned from / New York on Sunday Last In good health Came up in Company with / Cap’n Acker Pierre saw Mr Beekman in town Says G. is Very / penitent and humble (as Long as it Last) And minds his businefs / I hope he may. Your mama is well and My Leg Seems to / be in a fair way of gitting well soon. The Doctor was here this / morning Says he need not Come Untill Next Munday. Your / Mother and Little Sally have the Charge of it, wee Shall / Raise the Mill to morrow if the Wether Will permit / great preparation here in the Kitchen Way –
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Sunday Evening I heard from Crotons Your Sifter / and Sons were well. Tone told me Cortlandt was / Reading above; Isaac Odell has opened a Road / through the Great W-[ash?est?] Bank And has been offered / A Verry great price for 5 acres half as much as his / Whole farm Cost him, Land Sells heigh EveryWhere / here
I have Just Received a Letter from your / Sifter Renfselaer She Mr. R and Mifs Beekman were / all Well And Say if your Mama & my Self will Consent / a Covered Slay Shall Come down and fetch us up / to Albany the first good Sledding And Insist that / I Send An Answer; My or Our answer will be / as Unkle Henry used to say, the Chimney Corner is but / for Old people in the Winter, I believe you think / so too, You will please to Receive our best Regards / to you And the family with yours Am your
Affectionate Father
Pierre Van Cortlandt
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Father. Dec’r/ 14. 1795 -
And’d– the 20–
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Very interesting
OKTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
