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Livingston, Robert L., 1746-1813 to Ives

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02450.10 Author/Creator: Livingston, Robert L., 1746-1813 Place Written: Livingston Manor, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1789/09/08 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket ; 19.7 x 31.9 cm. Order a Copy

Seeks payment of a fifty pound debt or proof that it has already been paid. The recipient was possibly James Ives of Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Livingston, Robert L., 1775-1843
Ives, James, 1751-1826

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