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1700/05/[1]

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document signed

Title: Account of the Excise at Albany

Accounts for excises at Albany, the amount of rum expended in households, and what Livingston owes as the Collector of Albany.

GLC03107.00431

[1698/01/07]

Porter, John, fl. 1681-1698

Manuscript document signed

Title: Account of Robert Livingston

Livingston's debt to Porter for goods purchased and services rendered between 7 May 1698 and 26 July 1698.

GLC03107.00432

1698/05/12

Livingston, John

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: shipment of pelts to New York

John writes to his father that he had completed the packing of a case of pelts and sends word of his mother's wishes before completing the letter in Dutch. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.00433

1699/03/04

Ryckman, Albert, fl. 1680-1703

Manuscript document

Title: Account of Robert Livingston [in Dutch]

Record of transactions from 22 May 1698 and 3 [March] 1699.

GLC03107.00434

1698/05/24

Livingston, James, fl. 1698

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: family news

James writes of his son's marriage, hopes to see Livingston again in Scotland, and mentions John Dunbar, a fellow Scot on his way to New England that may be useful to Robert Livingston. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.00435

1698/05/26

Hackshaw, B., fl. 1697-1698

Manuscript document signed

Title: Assurance of items shipped

Assurance of goods shipped on Livingston's account from New York to London. Date on docket is 12 September 1698.

GLC03107.00436

[1698/06]

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document

Title: "Account of Gov. Fletcher's perquisites for victualling"

Livingston and Stephen van Cortlandt discuss their experiences as victuallers under Coll. Sloughter, Coll. Fletcher, and Coll. Ingoldesby; and the amount of money required to complete this task.

GLC03107.00437

1698/08/16

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document

Title: Account sheet re: money disbursed as victualler

Memorandum of money paid out to soldiers at Albany.

GLC03107.00438

1698/07/25

Hunt, Daniel, fl. 1698-1699

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: scarcity of wild fowl

Hunt writes of the scarcity of wild fowl in Schenectady. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.00439

1698/08/25

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document

Title: Livingston's plan for victualling

Livingston claimed that the four companies of soldiers garrisoned at Albany would require £3650 worth of food, or die of starvation, and that former Gov. Fletcher "would not undertake the victualling of the Companies but requird they would raise a Credit for the doing of it." Therefore Livingston presented this plan in an effort to lower his own expenditures while victualling the soldiers.

GLC03107.00442

1698/08/27

Schuyler, Johannis, fl. 1698

Autograph document signed

Title: Receipt [in Dutch]

GLC03107.00443

1699/06/09

Broadhurst, Jonathan, fl. 1698-1702

Manuscript document signed

Title: Account of Robert Livingston

18 bottles of wine, and other assorted purchases made from 2 September 1698 to 9 June 1699. Docketed on verso.

GLC03107.00444

1699/10/08

De Lancey, Stephen, fl. 1699

Autograph document signed

Title: Receipt for £32

Acknolwedges receipt of payment from John Abool on the account of Robert Livingston.

GLC03107.00445

1698/10/05

Cuyper, C., fl. 1698

Manuscript document

Title: Account of Robert Livingston [in Dutch]

Docketed on verso. Date on docket is December 1699

GLC03107.00446

1698/10/12

Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of, 1636-1701

Manuscript document

Title: to William Ashurst re: victualling 9 Companies of soldiers

Names Robert Livingston as Bellomont's liason with Ashurst for the victualling of troops in New York. Bellmont recommends that Ashurst begin a correspondence with Livingston. Docketed on verso.

GLC03107.00447

1690/07/10-1698/11/26

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document

Title: Account sheet re: excise paid

Livingston's list of excise taxes paid on alcohol in Albany, listing twenty-six payments and their particulars.

GLC03107.00448

[1698/11/21]

Sondr, Jelles, fl. 1698

Manuscript document signed

Title: Account of Robert Livingston

Account of payment to Sondr for services rendered.

GLC03107.00449

1698/11/30

Hanlin, Hendrick, fl. 1698

Manuscript document signed

Title: Approval of Robert Livingston's account

P.1 contains a statement signed by the Mayor Hendrick Hanlin, and the Aldermen Johannes Cuyler and Johannes Bleecker. The statement acknolwedges that Livingston's account, which appears on the following pages, has been audited and approved; and it determines legal fees and a further sum of money due to Livingston. The account on pages 2 and 3 calculates the debts and credits of the Mayor and Aldermen of Albany with regard to Livingston from 1695-1699.

GLC03107.00450

1698/12/13

Livingston, William, fl. 1769-1793

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: history of the Livingston family seal

William writes to Robert in describing his endeavors to gain a copy of the Livingston coat-of arms to send to Albany, and discusses their family history. William also discusses the present status of their family, informing Robert of deaths, illnesses, and marriages. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.00451