Name/Title
Letter from Philip John Schuyler to Jeremiah SchuylerEntry/Object ID
HHV 006.9Description
Letter from Philip John Schuyler to Jeremiah SchuylerSubject
farm sale, farm lease, farm rental, farm lotsSubject Person/Organization
Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768-1835), Philip J. Schuyler (1733-1804), Cornelia Van Cortlandt, David Travis, Isaac Travis, Joshua Travis, Elisha Turner, Elisha Turner Jr., Rensselaer Schuyler, Sarah Rutsen SchuylerSubject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Albany, New York, Rhinebeck, New York, CrompondCollection
Schuyler Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
New York March 3d 1796
My Dear Child
I have frequently written to two persons / who live on farms in the manor of Cortlandt, leased / by my Mother, but never could obtain an answer, both / are on Great Lot Number four which is about Crom-pond / on that Lot farm Number 4 was leased on the first / day of May 1740 To David Travis, during the natural / Lives of his sons Isaac Travis and Joshua Travis _ / David Travis is dead, whether either of the two sons is / alive or not, I do not know, If either is alive I can only / sell the [reversion?] thereof. If both are dead, I can sell absolutely_
The other is Farm No. 8 on the same great lot number / four and was leased on the first of May 1753 To Elisha / Turner, during his life and the life of Elisha Turner / Jun~ his son, the Elder is dead whether the former [^ latter] is or not, I cannot tell. __ In June 1786 when I was there / this farm was possessed by Peter & John Coval or Loval /
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The rent from the 15’ November 1785 was to be paid / by John Loval at £3..10 per annum is --- £35-- / due on the 15~ of Nov: last _
On the Farm Leased to David Travis there is / upwards of £80 of rent unless any has been paid and not Credited_
I wish you would without delay go to the / Manor of Cortlandt and enquire whether any / of the persons on whose lives the lease depends / are still alive. or not. If alive where they are. who are / the present Occupants, require them to pay the / rent, and offer both farms for sale giving the / occupants the refusal,__ If you find any person / there [sitting?] to Discharge the back rent and / who will take a dead [???] deed for the possession If any of the lives exist, or an absolute warran- / tie If none exist, you may agree for the Farm / of Travis at four pounds an acre unlefs you / can obtain more. It contains 215 Acres and for /
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that leased to Turner three pounds an Acre / unlefs you can obtain more_ I believe more / may be got for both._
The [avails?] of the sale and rent of the Travises / farm are for you, the other for your Brother / Rensselaer._ whether [^ If] you agree with any person or persons / let them come down with you to this / place If possible, _ or soon after._ If none agrees still / come down yourself
Embrace my Sally & the Children for / me they all share with You in my love
Compliments to Mr & Mrs Sands and Miss / Rutsen adieu My Dear Child /
from affectionately
yours +c
Ph: Schuyler
Ph:J.Schuyler Esqr’
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Gen’l Schyuler
March 3 _ 96
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Former NumberOther Number
S 941
