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1791/01/06

Livingston, John, 1750-1822

Autograph document signed

Title: Receipt of four fowls for rent

GLC03107.04493

1749/12/20

Williams, John, fl. 1749-1759

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter DeWitt re: conveyance of rents

Williams writes to explain the rents he is sending to DeWitt.

GLC03107.04454

1747/07/15

Note

Title: to Henry Livingston [(?)] re: rent agreement of Michiel Stoppelbeen

The note states that Michiel Stoppelbeen has taken a parcel of land, and notes the rent that he will pay. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.04457

1812/03/26

Livingston, James Duane, fl. 1812

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Walter Patterson re: tenant relations

GLC03107.04510

February 8, 1802

Rand, Isaac, 1743-1822

Autograph note signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Asks Knox to send $115 for rent.

GLC02437.07712

February 7, 1789

Stevens, John, 1749-1838

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Asks that Knox forward about 50 pounds to pay his rent.

GLC02437.04106

February 18, 1796

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to Samuel Adams

Rough draft of GLC02437.06630.

GLC02437.06631

1784/07/31

Lansing, John, 1754-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Livingston (1753-1823) re: tenants settled without leases

John Lansing, Jr. writes that he will send more information regarding the tenants who have settled without leases when he returns from New York. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.03768

1789/07/20

St. John, Ezra, fl. 1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Livingston (1753-1823) re: Mr. Tibbit's farm

Ezra St. John writes that people have asked if Henry intends to sell Mr. Tibbet's farm, as Mr. Tibbet has not paid his rent and has also accumulated a great many other debts. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.03776

1790/04/14

Swart, Dirck

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Livingston (1753-1823) re: death of Mr. Robison

Swart writes that Mr. Robison just died, and left a considerable amount of back rents yet to be paid. He explains that Robison's son expressed interest in occupying his late father's farm, and Swart desires Henry to instruct him on how to manage the back rents. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.03779

1799/01/10

Livingston, Henry, 1753-1823

Manuscript document

Title: Rent accounts of Jacob L. & Cornelius L. Decker

The account records the back rent owed by Jacob L. and Cornelius L. Decker from the years 1791 and 1792.

GLC03107.03792

February 18, 1777

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Morris

Written by Hancock as President of the Continental Congress to Morris as a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania. Reports to Morris that Congress will return to Philadelphia, and suggests that its return may relieve some of the burden of Morris's work. Says he has sent his secretary to secure a house for him. Hancock also asks for wagons to transport the papers of Congress from Baltimore. Asks for four of them. Concluding with a kind postscript: "A number of friends... dine with me tomorrow, when we shall not be unmindful of our Philada friends." Free frank is in Hancock's signature on…

GLC04431

1775/02/02

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Rev. M. Morton re: seeking payment from tardy tenant of George Fairfax

"I could be no neighbor to a person who bore the Character you (justly, or unjustly....) did, there is no reason why Col. Fairfax (a third person) is to have the same Card to play over again next year in pursuit of another tenant." Washington acted as steward for Fairfax.

GLC07143

1711/12/11

Hunter, Robert, 1664-1734

Manuscript document

Title: Answers to objections to the settlement of the palatins in New York

The document defends Robert Livingston's choice of land to settle his palatins in New York. Docketed on p.4.

GLC03107.04941

February 28, 1796

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Vose

Writes to make sure Vose is keeping up with the efforts to apprehend Samuel Ely and the other insurgents threatening to destroy land and property belonging to Knox in Maine. Reports that the Massachusetts government has taken steps to protect Knox's property. Provides information on Ely's background and plans. Hopes not to have to come to Maine until April.

GLC02437.06643

February 27, 1866

McSherry, Anna, 1833-?

Autograph letter

Title: to Henry F. McSherry

Written by Anna to her brother Henry. Makes reference to the resignation and their father's disapproval again. Says she left Baltimore yesterday and has been ill since January and is taking cod liver oil. Mentions that the price of corn is 60 cents/bushel. Says the old town (probably Martinsburg) looks as usual and that "the railroad is its life." Claims that "Prices are high here, marketing and everything so the country people ought to have some money. Pa has rented the home next door for 250 dollars. the brick house ... for 375 and the small house ... for 75 dollars." Most of the letter…

GLC03523.21.51

February 10, 1865

Timmons, Isaac, fl. 1865

Printed document signed

Title: List of monies, turned over to Capt. T. A. Walker, Superintendent of Freedmen, West Tennessee, on account of the Freedmen's Department.

Partially printed. Timmons certifies that he has turned $20 over to Captain Walker "for rent of two rooms in Shelby Street School house from 10th Febry to 9th March 1865." Served as one month's rent.

GLC08649.05