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1727/10/23

Schermerhoern, Ryer, fl. 1726-1727

Manuscript document signed

Title: Financial document with Robert Livingston [in Dutch]

GLC03107.01811

1727/10/25

Vosburgh, Jan, fl. 1727

Manuscript document signed

Title: Financial document with Robert Livingston [in Dutch]

GLC03107.01812

1727/10/26

Cormik, William, fl. 1727

Manuscript document signed

Title: Reckoning of account with Robert Livingston

Cormik acknowledges that he remains in Livingston's debt. Cormik signed with his mark.

GLC03107.01813

1727/10/26

Schermehoren, Jacob, fl. 1725-1727

Manuscript document signed

Title: Financial document with Robert Livingston [in Dutch]

GLC03107.01814

1727-1728

Suths, Johannis, fl. 1727-1728

Autograph document signed

Title: Account of Robert Livingston [in Dutch]

GLC03107.01815

1728/[08/10]

Winne, Killiam, fl. 1728

Autograph document signed

Title: Account of Robert Livingston [in Dutch]

GLC03107.01816

1728/04/12

Holthaysen, Barnardus, fl. 1728

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: [in Dutch]

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.01817

1728/05/28

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document

Title: Consignment of land on the Manor of Livingston to Jacob Vosburgh

Document is in Dutch and English. P.2 two notes that approximately 90 acres of land on either side of Roeloff Johnson's Kill, including all houses, barns, and orchards, are now in the possession of Jacob Vosburgh.

GLC03107.01818

1728/06/22

Rees, Ephraim, fl. 1719-1728

Document signed

Title: Financial bond to Robert Livingston

Rees signed with his mark.

GLC03107.01819

1728/08/10

Winne, Kilias, fl. 1728

Manuscript document signed

Title: Financial document with Robert Livingston [in Dutch]

Winne signed with his mark.

GLC03107.01820

1728/07/04

Bayard. Stephen, fl. 1725-1731

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: price of provisions in New York and Curacao

Stephen writes of the extravagant prices for provisions in Curacao, and compares them with the prices in New York. He also writes of the theft of rum from Capt. Watten's cellar.

GLC03107.01821

circa 1585-1763

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Arent Bratt re: case against John Barnard

The document outlines Christopher Estrat's complaint against John Barnard, who allegedly agreed to lease a piece of land to Jan Baptist and Estrat for 7 years, but then ran Estrat off of it before the lease expired. Estratt is therefore suing Barnard for damages. Livingston's description of the case is then followed by a note from Barnard to Arent Bratt, in which Barnard asks Bratt to attend his case at the Court of Common Pleas.

GLC03107.01822

circa 1585-1763

Davenport, Thomas

Manuscript document

Title: Account of Peeter Van Brugh & Johannes Cuyler

Van Brugh and Cuyler purchased shroud and some other materials.

GLC03107.01823

circa 1585-1763

Wessells, Dirck, fl. 1687

Manuscript document

Title: "Dirk Wessells Esq: Mayor of the Citty of Albany to the Sherriffe . . .

Constables and other his Majes. officers greting show yee that wee the said Mayor have Lyncenced and" P.1 ends incomplete. P.2 contains an account. Docketed on verso.

GLC03107.01824

circa 1585-1763

Livingston, Philip, 1686-1749

Manuscript document

Title: "a Lyst of Rents due to the estate of father Livingston"

GLC03107.01825

circa 1585-1763

Johnston, John, fl. 1723

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: remedies for Livingston's illness [fragment]

Johnston prescribes some remedies to cure Livingston's maladies.

GLC03107.01826

[1728]/09/26

Brockholes, Anthony, fl. 1682-1728

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: fur trade

Brockholes informs Livingston of some transactions he has completed, and asks Livinston to send more goods. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.01827

1686/07/20

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Autograph document signed

Title: Conditional release of a tract of land to King James II

During his term as Governor of the province of New York, Thomas Dongan purchased a tract of land called Saratoga from the Mohawk Indians, and then released it to a number of Dutch and English men, among them Robert Livingston, in the form of a land patent on 4 November 1684. In the document, Robert Livingston states that there is a creek in his territory where Indians come to fish, and he notes that it would make a convenient settlement for the Christian Indians of Canada, and would also open up the opportunity to trade with these Indians. Livingston therefore releases the tract of land to…

GLC03107.01828

circa 1585-1763

Manuscript document

Title: "Reasons offer to the arbitrators why they ought not to allow . . .

of Jacob Harwoods sham sale of Robt. Livingstons Tallys of 1670." P.1 of the document outlines how Harwood's actions anulled any legitimate sale. P.2 is an account of how Robert Livingston came into possession of a part of the estate of Coll. Dongan. Docketed on verso.

GLC03107.01829