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Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728 Account sheet re: construction costs of three seagoing vessels

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.00228 Author/Creator: Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728 Place Written: Albany, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1694/10/12 Pagination: 6 p. : docket : Height: 32.6 cm, Width: 21.3 cm Order a Copy

Entitled "An Account of money Disbursed by Robt Livingston for ye Materialls and Workmanship of three new vessells viz. a Briggateen and Two Sloops which Maj Pr Schuyler & I build in Comp here in Albany." Itemized list of supplies and expenditures.

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