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Description
Sir Peyton Skipwith wrote from Richmond, VA to Alexander Donald, address not included. The letter is regarding the shipping of some tobacco to City point. He wrote that his manager at Hog Island had found the old tobacco unfavorable and therefore he will be shipping less than originally planned.
Author/Creator
Peyton Skipwith
Recipient
Alexander Donald
Creation Date
10-22-1785
Document Type
Manuscript
Location
Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia
Inventory Location
Bay 1, Column 2, LHC Series 5
Recommended Citation
Skipwith, Peyton. Sir Peyton Skipwith to Alexander Donald, October 22, 1785. Manuscript. From Special Collections Research Library and Archives, Kean University, Liberty Hall Collection 1780s. https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1780s/339
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.