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Cochran, Catherine, 1781-1857 To Philip J. Schuyler

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09636.08 Author/Creator: Cochran, Catherine, 1781-1857 Place Written: Albany, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 31 March 1801 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; 21 x 17.2 cm. Order a Copy

A letter between siblings Catherine updated Philip J. on something she is sending him. She also mentions his cheese and that she has taken charge of. Their mother was afraid to trust it to Hamilton as, "The sloop he went down in, took fire as it lay at anchor in Haverstraw Bay." She writes they extinguished it and it made Nyack at 4 o'clock, only 25 hours later.

Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah, 1768-1835
Cochran, Catherine. 1781-1857

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