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Sarah Ricketts wrote to her sister, Susan Kean, address not included. The first 8 pages of the letter are no longer with pages 9-11. She wrote updating Susan on their family and friends. She mentioned that Mr. B was in bad debt and would have to do something or else he would go to jail, according to their father Peter Van Brugh Livingston. Robert Barnwell had been staying with them but left to go to J.R. Livingston's wedding to Eliza McEvers, then he would go to Mr. B's and then stay with them the Ricketts again until he left for South Carolina. Their brother Philip was doing well and had been made a senator of New York.

People Included: Lewis William Otto, Sarah Livingston Jay, Susan (Livingston?), John Jay, Martha Washington, Mrs. R. Morris, Mrs. Church, James Ricketts, Mrs. Laferty, C. Huger, Franks, Mr. Griffin, and Sam Smith.

Places Included: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Author/Creator

Sarah Ricketts, formerly Sarah Livingston

Recipient

Susan Kean, formerly Susan Livingston, and later Susan Ursin Niemcewicz (1759-1833)

Creation Date

6-4-1789

Document Type

Manuscript

Location

Location Unknown (Possibly Elizabethtown, NJ)

Collection

Liberty Hall Collection, 1711-1847 (bulk 1790-1830)

Inventory Location

Bay 1, Column 1, LHC Series 2

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 Archive, Kean University

Sarah Ricketts to Susan Kean, June 4, 1789

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