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- GLC#
- GLC03107.03408-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1781/09/04
- Author/Creator
- Van Vechten, Teunis, 1707-1785
- Title
- to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: iron trade
- Place Written
- Albany, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 34 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Van Vechten discusses the selling price of iron and makes arrangments to ship some to Robert, Jr. He also mentions that "The Inhabitants of this place are in great unesiness for the City, as there are informations that the Enemy in Canada have a design to send their emissaries to try to destroy it by Fire, which I hope the Lord will be pleased to prevent." Docketed on verso.
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