Albany, August 25 1698

Dear husband

deliver the small ones up there for halves
and.....in the costs (?)
this one goes with Abraham Provoost and send a small barrel with pelts and 6 penny in bearskins with Mijndert to Holland it is not packed tightly 31 heavy pieces of eight and 6 of eight given there is nothing to be had the traders are now sending away themselves command those goods on that list from Holland there is a poor pea harvest here because of the heavy rains Hansoom has now left and our Johannes Jan the Frenchman and David and Dirk van der Heyde and Robbert is ill he can’t go with them you should see to it that xxxxxx (they still get an increase in soldiers’ pay?) it is now the worst time to get over the drought I have put away/in 35 lb. in heavy pieces of eight they could not wait for the ...... ( strowaters) and linen had already been mostly cut up so they did not take that with them I am now without money or beavers and pelts if our barketine comes from Barbados then we have to have 2 hog heads of sugar here I hear the lieutenant gouvernor is now in viexw I do not know where we will get grain for those people to eat we only have left for 14 days if the command does not come that some farmers xxxxxx thresh I will not get any I have talked to the recorder who said that as you had accepted it the care worry was yours also and went then to Mr. Wessels break off with this and commend you into the protection of the Most Highest
your loving wife
Alida Livinghston

Hansoom has accorded 3 pieces..... (strowater) Jan the Frenchman and Robbert had agreed that each would give 6 lb. if/thus Dirk and David would go along you see to it that our Johannes gets as much as Jan the Frenchman and that there still should be an (increase?)

The lieutenant goxvernor has (arrived) here at home I wonder that you send me such a trouble as you yourself are not at home that muslin and the linen is too late for Hansoom has already left so I can not send it after for the ( sprouts/?) are so high that no one can ride through them I have given Mijndert 31 heavy pieces of eight and 6 pieces which weigh 109 penny