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Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728 "Examination & mittimas for P[ete]r Nix and Joh[anne]s Server"

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.01485 Author/Creator: Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728 Place Written: Livingston Manor, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1722/11/12 Pagination: 2p. : docket : Height: 33.2 cm, Width: 21.1 cm Order a Copy

The document charges Peter Nix and Johannes Server with the crime of stealing horses from Robert Livingston and Davil Prill. Livingston then wrote an order to the jail of Albany, explaining the crimes of the two men, and demanding their admission to the jail. Docketed on verso.

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