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Schuyler, Brandt, 1659-1752 to Robert Livingston re: [in Dutch]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.05345 Author/Creator: Schuyler, Brandt, 1659-1752 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1700/03/04 Pagination: 1p. + addr. 30.5 x 19.5 Order a Copy

Typed translation available in collateral file. The letter notes that Capt. William Kidd and some other privateers left for England on a man-of-war. Docketed on address leaf.

Livingston, Robert Henry, 1760-1804
Schuyler, Brandt, 1659-1752
Kidd, William, 1654-1701

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