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CATALOG NUMBER S 949
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE December 3, 1812
AUTHOR Philip P. Schuyler
RECIPIENT Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Jethro Bennet, William Bennet, Abraham Bennet, Captain Bergh,
Mr. Schell (“Schill”), Mrs. [Suckly], John + Catharine, Poppy, William Radcliff, ?? Traver, “Mink” (enslaved or formerly enslaved), Rickert, Chancellor Livingston, Doctor [Bonds/Bards?]
PLACES Troy, “Travers place”, the Fulling Mill,
KEYWORDS Farmers Bank at Troy, [deer] season, chestnuts, shipped items,
sale of Travers place, mill operations, flour, Rickert’s treatment,
wind storm, chimney damage, Chancellor Livingston declining,
cloth production,
Rhinebeck December 3rd..1812
Dear Papa
I this day rec’d your letter and I / am very sorry to find that you have not / rec’d a letter from me, which I sent you / some time past, for I enclosed a letter directed / to you which I took the liberty of opening and / as I found it might be of some consequence / to you therefore sent it on, also stating that I / had opened one from Jethro Bennet & that he / had deposited in the Farmers Bank at Troy / $171 for William & Abraham Bennet his sons.
I sent your things by Capt Bergh two / weeks ago and he shipped them at New / York, I spoke to Mr. Schill in [deer] season / for your Chestnuts but as they were very / poor he said he would send you some good / ones from N.York and this day he told / me he would not [^get] any for you in that / place, I mentioned in my last that I had / rec’d a letter from Mrs [Suckly], I have rec’d / one since requesting me to forward the / First on to John + Catharine, but Poppy / here advised [^me] to keep them both until you / come out, she also requests answers [^from] me /
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but Poppy advises me to have nothing to do with it, that / is not to answer them.
I have not got any person yet to attempt / to purchase Travers place, I think it ought / to be a person who is now about purchasing / lands, and as Mr Wm Radcliff is a friend of mine / and is now buying up lands, I intend to speak to / him, I have no doubt but he will attempt and / I am sure Traver never would suspect him; / [Mink] has sufficient Water to run both Stones / but he has very little grain in at present, he / has not as yet disposed of your Flour ??, The Fulling / Mill is full of cloth so as to keep three hands / busily employed, as I have been down there / considerable lately and seen the treatment of / Rickert towards several of the respectable Farmers / of this Town, I think it would be best for you, [merely?] / to write to Mr Mink, as advice, to warn [^advise] Rickert to be / a little sociable to his customers, I have heard no / complaints about the drefsing of the Clothes but I / have heard some say that R was not very / accommodating + others say that he feels too / independant, that if the Mills did not belong / to you they would take their cloth away, Mr Sands / I believe has spoken to Rickert about it. Once /
We are all very well here and unite in Love / to you, Mama & the Family. We had a very /
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severe gale of wind here some time past, which has / done a great deal of damage in some places / it blew down my Fences and a few Bricks off of / one of my Chimneys the Bed room Chimney, / Chancellor Livingston is not expected to live from / one hour to another, I have understood that / Doctor [Bonds/Bards?] opinion is, that he cannot survive / more than a few days.
your affectionate son
Philip P Schuyler
Philip J Schuyler Esqr
Cambridge
Request John to answer my letter,
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[ADDRESS]
Philip J. Schuyler Esq’r
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Par main
[POSTAL NOTATION]
17
[LABEL]
Philip P. Schuyler
December 1812Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
