October 26, 1717

Dear husband
I send you my picture/painting I request that the dress be changed to a less tight dress the neck not so bare and the clothes darker and send it for your painting to take the measure in case Robbert gets married have a good garment made for him not/with such a white color give him as much flour and kernel to value a hundred lb. and in the spring we can see if we can help him again a bit more let him send it away our animals will go up

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around All Saints’ Day we will set the prices like last year do send Johannes that beer and cakes and butter and dried applies I xx xxx believe that he is unable to come the English have been on Westenhoek at nepato (?) and have called it New Boston and they want to settle a village in the spring as he says
your loving wife
Alida Livinghston

6 dozen tin spoons ½ dozen saltshakers and cups I sent 23 lb tin beside the pan
in the manor of Livinghston