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Description
P. Van Berckle wrote from Philadelphia to Miss Livingston, most likely Susan Livingston, address not included. He wrote that his son was going to New York and he wanted him to make Susan's acquaintance. He also asked about her father Peter Van Brugh Livingston, step-mother, Elizabeth Livingston, and sister Eliza Livingston. Susan at this point was married to John Kean, but it is possibly that Van Berckle did not know that.
Author/Creator
P. Van Berckle
Recipient
Susan Kean, formerly Susan Livingston, and later Susan Ursin Niemcewicz (1759-1833)
Creation Date
12-6-1786
Document Type
Manuscript
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Inventory Location
Bay 1, Column 2, LHC Series 5
Recommended Citation
Van Berckle, P.. P. Van Berckle to Susan Livingston, December 6, 1786. Manuscript. From Special Collections Research Library and Archives, Kean University, Liberty Hall Collection 1780s. https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1780s/331
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.