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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03107.00628 |
| From Archive Folder | The Livingston Family Papers [028] 1701 |
| Title | Robert Livingston's petition contesting Royal Collector Thomas Weaver's decision to revoke all warrants |
| Date | 30 August 1701 |
| Author | Livingston, Robert (1654-1728) |
| Document Type | Business and financial document |
| Content Description | Livingston's petition contesting Royal Collector Thomas Weaver's decision to revoke all "warrants" granted to Livingston. These warrants, which are payments for Livingston's expenditures in victualling the troops at Albany and other such layings-out of money on the Provincial Government's behalf, are vital to Livingston's finances as he had "exhausted his means to support the credit of the Government." Docketed on verso. |
| Subjects | Government and Civics Petition Finance Military History Military Provisions Merchants and Trade Commerce |
| People | Livingston, Robert (1654-1728) Weaver, Thomas (fl. 1700-1701) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | Government & Politics; Merchants & Commerce |
| Sub-collection | The Livingston Family Papers |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |