(Livingston Manor, May 15, 1722;
received by Robert in New York: May 26)


May 15, 1722, in the Manor of Livinghston.


My Dear Husband,

I hope this will find you and our children in good health. Our cousin Veets has received a letter from her father and mother. And her mother writes that Captain Veets has been promised [he] will be Governor of Boston and that his commission was being written, but that she will now keep quiet somewhat.
The yacht is being caulked now, and I will send the skins and peltries and flour and cornel down as soon as the yacht has been done. Please, [send] 2 thousand shoe-pins and [a] big auger and cotton and one-and-a-half-inch chisels and one-inch chisels, and flour, nails, and 6 saws. Send with Van Naele1) 30 bushels of salt, please; the other [stuff] can come with our yacht.
Alida has got a box with clothes from Smit, captain of the Bever. Please, pay for its freight. I hope we have received our goods now.
On May 13 [word] came here that the Assembly [‘s adjournment] has been prolonged till May 28. I feel sad that you have to stay there for so long.
There is a severe drought here. The grain and all the fruit in the fields will dry up if there will be no rain. Gysbert and his wife and 2 children are here; they are leaving today, but do not talk about anything and I don’t ask them anything.

Alida Livinghston.

Note:
1) = Van Ale.