Albany, June 13 1698

My dear husband

I have received your 2 letters of June x 3d and 4th with the cradle for our daughter when Dommenie comes home I will have her baptised please write her name how she will be called if you don’t come up yourself Johannes van Veghten will inform you how it is with the wheat at Dirk Teunesse for I hear that there has been sold from that I have asked him to get the information soon and you should adjust accordingly for there is none for sale here Dirk and Pieter have sent their wheat off we have 10 barrels of lard in storage the meat has already been distributed also Dirk’s 5 barrels I am sending you 127 rickety boards that is all that he has and I have ordered Frans that he down there should buy as many I am very amazed that you bought the stone from Kornel Hetkot because you could get cheaper from xxx others I don’t see that after you have been gone for so long that any settlement has been placed on you which the king granted you unless you do not let him know about it Captain Win can not speak a good word about milord nor about you from what I hear and said as long as he was here you would not get a nickel at his company and he furnishes it from his own store which he has at Turkshead and came to me to advance him money but I said that I had no order thereto after he had used such malicious words now he can wait himself for the money which he furnished himself madam Inghelsbie came to get xxxx xxxxx rough linen for 9 beavers and 5 ½ lb. xxx thread which is all the thread and for 10 ....in silk which we have we have no white cotton yarn or blue, red and xxx green of ¾ with color and xx ren rough we need white and flowered cotton for 3 guilders the geert and linen for shirts I wished you had completed your things for your farms are going to pot

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which is good in his eye Schipper has not sown any summer wheat nor has Is-aac Aghesteyn made a fence around the land so I hope that you will soon be finished there so as to settle your own things here they could not get to Taghkanick without 3 horses before the cart the big bridge is gone with this break off and commend you into the protection of the Most Highest
Your loving and lonesome wife
Alida Livinghston


Our Robbert buys martens and ......... (Hespannen) Dutch = Raccoon for 3 bits the x piece and foxen 7 guilders and so Ghert Bancker and Abeel do just buy them I am amazed that you writex that they are so empyt there x I have received your letter with Dirk Bensinck and seen that the Assembly does not do much but discord I think that the convention is strong enough to sit even if they absent themselves our Marghriet now goes off to have her bonnets made at the manner and to bring along my clothes and bonnets she expects a new dress from you bring her up and let her come up again with the same yacht and let her go and visit milady and let her bring greetings from me and bring her there if you think it right our child is in very much fever and won’t let go of me I have nearly no milk which means it has to be brought up with porridge which is a great deal of trouble the Indian had already left with the group before I had my letter ready so I could not do it then see that my dress is ready and my bonnets so Marghriet can bring it up let her come up at the soonest we need a barrel of tobacco to buy ..... (bier bils) it goes a bit better now