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Description
William Wilkie wrote from Charleston to John Kean, addressed to Beaufort, SC. Captain Keen had gotten back to him and if John agreed to his terms would transport the Kean Family and their furniture to New York. He was to be paid in good rice and would arrive October 1 or 2. He requested that the pilot at Beaufort look out for him as he had never been there and that the family be ready to depart when he arrived.
Author/Creator
William Wilkie
Recipient
John Kean (1755-1795)
Creation Date
9-21-1789
Document Type
Manuscript
Location
Charleston, SC
Inventory Location
Bay 1, Column 1, LHC Series 2
Recommended Citation
Wilkie, William. William Wilkie to John Kean, September 21, 1789. Manuscript. From Special Collections Research Library and Archives, Kean University, Liberty Hall Collection 1780s. https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1780s/309
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.