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Show/hide Download PDF Brother Livingstone, New York, February 7, 1699.
Yesterday [I] wrote you that Mr. Vaster wants to move out of your house this May, which I told Mr. De Lancey tonight, who regretted he had rented Leendert Lewis’s house because he likes your house better. So he requests that you instruct brother Schuyler or anyone you like as soon as possible to come to an agreement with him. And if you were willing to build some addition on to the house he would like to rent it, and then he would offer Leendert Lewis’s house for sale again to let that to someone else. Please, do as you think advisable in this affair.
Some time ago the Lieutenant-Governor and Council moved to make an order for the interests you are claiming in accordance with the King’s order, on which the Council was not able to make a decision then. It seems the Lieutenant-Governor or someone else has written about that to My Lord, who on the latest mail-day has replied to that to the Lieutenant-Governor. And [he] refers that case to a certain instruction which My Lord has brought along saying that His Excellency will investigate the reason why the last Governor and Council had not acted upon the King’s order. I immediately replied to that that My Lord had taken that investigation upon himself and we had nothing to do with it anymore. But the Messieurs wished to know the reason and sent for Mr. Clarckson and Mr Jamisson to get those papers, who compared them and handed them to the Lieutenant-Governor. Whether the Lieutenant-Governor or someone of the Council has read them over, I don’t know, but [I] hear by a sidewind that Dr. Staets has been with Mr. Jamisson to learn from him what reason Colonel Fletcher had to keep your case in suspension, and he is displaying great diligence in prying deeply into your case. I’m writing you this so that you will be informed of this by the time you come down. Today I paid Mr. Barbarie your two bills. Good-bye; greetings from your obliging broher S. v. Cortlandt.
In a great hurry because the mail is leaving.
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