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Collection Reference Number GLC03107.03360
From Archive Folder The Livingston Family Papers [084] 1777-1779 
Title Lease of a farm at Canen to Joel Chamberlain
Date 27 February 1777
Author Livingston, Robert (1708-1790)  
Document Type Land transaction document
Content Description Joel Chamberlain signed a one year lease with Robert Livingston, Jr. for a farm at Canen in Connecticut. Chamberlain agreed to keep the farm in good condition, prune the apple trees, and "to use the whole farm as a good farmer orth [sic] to do."
Subjects Land Transaction  Landlord and Tenant  Contract  Agriculture and Animal Husbandry  
People Livingston, Robert (1708-1790)  Chamberlain, Joel (fl. 1777-1783)  
Theme Merchants & Commerce; Agriculture
Sub-collection The Livingston Family Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859