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Description
Peter Van Brugh Livingston wrote from Elizabethtown to John Kean, addressed to Hanover Square, No. 3, New York, NY. He wrote that he received John Kean's letter, including the one for Mr. Rutherfurd which was given to Mr. Dayton to forward. He hoped that John and Susan's health was better, but said that Peter was doing fine. Eliza Otto was also with him and has grown her first tooth. He was unable to gift John the rent for the house and suggested they work on finding a smaller house and then seeing what could be done.
Author/Creator
Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1712-1792)
Recipient
John Kean (1755-1795)
Creation Date
6-23-1788
Document Type
Manuscript
Location
Elizabethtown, County of Essex, NJ
Inventory Location
Bay 1, Column 1, LHC Series 2
Recommended Citation
Livingston, Peter V.. Peter Van Brugh Livingston to John Kean, June 23, 1788. Manuscript. From Special Collections Research Library and Archives, Kean University, Liberty Hall Collection 1780s. https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1780s/221
Rights
This collection is open to the public for research use. Copyright remains with Kean University. Credit this material. Personal photographs may be made for research purposes. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to Lynette Zimmerman, Executive Director at the Liberty Hall Academic Center & Exhibition Hall at lzimmerm@kean.edu.
Publishing Repository
Special Collections Research Library and Archives, Kean University
Collection
The Liberty Hall Collection consists of the correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other manuscript material of the Livingston and Kean families, dated from 1739-1847. The bulk of the collection is related to Susan Livingston Kean Niemcewicz (1759-1833). The Livingston and Kean families frequently corresponded and held accounts with other wealthy, prominent, colonial and early American families in New Jersey, especially Elizabethtown, Philadelphia, New York City, upstate New York, England, France, and Poland. A small portion of the collection includes correspondence with early Virginia families, unrelated to the Livingston and Kean families. The collection includes second hand accounts of enslaved people who were owned by the Kean and other families, offering a glimpse into their forced work and places of residence.