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Barbarie, John, fl. 1698 Account of Robert Livingston

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.00429 Author/Creator: Barbarie, John, fl. 1698 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Manuscript document Date: [1698/09/16] Pagination: 1p. : docket : Height: 21.1 cm, Width: 33 cm Order a Copy

Record of Livingston's debt accrued between 11 March 1698 for the purchase of items including "broad cloth," "serge," "sugar loff," "kaggs of oyster," and "sail cloth" from Barbarie, in return for cash and deerskins. Some of the payments were made by Stephen van Cortlandt.

Barbarie, John, fl. 1698

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