Livingston, Peter Robert, fl. 1765-1790 to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: further frustration with the DeLancey's
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.03238 Author/Creator: Livingston, Peter Robert, fl. 1765-1790 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1770/04/20 Pagination: 1p. + addr. 29.7 x 19 cm Order a Copy
Peter Robert states: "The DeLanceys are striving their utmost to make our famaly ridiculous and to keep them out of all Posts of Honour Profit and are determined to oppose every thing and every Body that they support which is too hard to bear I could wish you lived here one year to judge of their carrying on-." He also makes arrangements to sell an enslaved person that has misbehaved.
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