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Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728 Account sheet from ledger book [mostly Dutch with some English]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.00175 Author/Creator: Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728 Place Written: Albany, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1696/11/15 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 31.4 cm, Width: 19.7 cm Order a Copy

Includes one page in English, describing an "Account of Money disbursed by Rt. Livingston in Procuring of 10 Barrels of Powder which were taken from him and Major Peter Schuyler by Jacob Leysler in the time of the late Revolution." The remainder is a record of accounts in Dutch.

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