Henry Livingston, Jr.
Henry Livingston's Letters


I wish your influential men would accomodate navigable water to communicate with Lake Michigan, & to the Wabash as forming a water line with the Erie. Our great western canal is progressing rapidly & steadily-- No doubt is entertained of its entire completion in 3 more seasons added to the present. The expense besure is great, but a great state undoubtedly looks it in the face. Could you in 3 or 4 years carry your Illinois or Wabash to the lake, old as I am I might in my own barge come to your very door & bid you good morning. I am an old man & probably may be too visionary. Mr. Kane & you are young and will live to see great events.1



DATE
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 TOPICS
2 May 1752 Rev. Chauncey Graham Henry Sr. DCHS YB Henry's son sent home from school for vacation
3 May 1755 Rev. Chauncey Graham Henry Sr. DCHS YB Requests Henry draw a map for him
Undated William Livingston Henry Sr. DCHS YB Proposed Episcopal college for New York
20 Mar 1770 Gilbert Livingston (brother) Henry NYPL Henry was with Uncle Beekman for winter, but river now open
30 Dec 1773 Henry Sally Welles (1st wife) Thomas Collection Happy Christmas; love; her sisters
8 Feb 1774 Henry Sally Welles (1st wife) ISA fear of Sally's death; does she love him
2 Aug 1775 Gilbert (brother) Henry NYHS got Henry commission as Major of 3rd NY
19 Aug 1775 Henry Colonel James Clinton x birth of baby; unit wants own doctor
22 Oct 1775 Henry Colonel James Clinton Thomas Collection Col. Easton may command unit to Montreal
9 Sep 1775 Henry Sally Welles (1st wife) ISA love; first poem to baby Catharine
26 Jan 1778 Rev. J.H. Livingston (brother) Henry Livingston, Sr. (father) x death of Henry Jr.'s son
12 Oct 1784 Henry John R. Livingston x sympathy on death of John's wife
24 Dec 1789 Egbert Benson Henry NYPL as Commissioner of Sequestration
2 May 1802 Henry Henry Welles Livingston (son) Thomas Collection surveying; give love to stepmother and siblings
19 Oct 1809 Henry Welles (son) Henry NYPL x
30 Mar 1811 Henry Someone at Manor NYHS Interferring in Thorn's marriage after being asked by Judge Glen
9 Sep 1813 Henry Welles (son) Henry NYPL on way to Boston; will come back thru Hartford; miss you
19 Feb 1814 Arthur Breese (son-in-law) Henry NYPL death of Henry's daughter
21 Jul 1814 Arthur Breese (son-in-law) Henry NYPL death of Henry's daughter
19 Feb 1814 Sarah Breese (gdaughter) Henry NYPL death of Henry's daughter
30 Aug 1815 Arthur Breese (son-in-law) Henry NYPL x
31 May 1817 Jos Howland Henry NYPL Turnpike - Henry wants to be supervisor of Turnpike
2 May 1818 Abraham Mesier Henry NYPL surveying job
28 Jan 1819 Henry Sidney Breese (gson) x hears Sidney moving from Ohio to Illinois
13 Jun 1819 Henry Sidney Breese (gson) x America; questions about Illinois
24 Jul 1819 Henry Hoffman NYSA Astor survey
20 Aug 1819 Henry Sidney Breese (gson) ISA son Charles joining Sidney; West Point cadets; questions re Illinois
22 Nov 1819 Henry Sidney Breese (gson) ISA many more questions re Illinois
19 Aug 181x Samuel Livingston Breese (gson) Henry NYPL x
27 Jan 1820 Henry Sidney Breese (gson) ISA advice on being a lawyer; more questions re Illinois
19 Apr 1820 Arthur Breese (son-in-law) Henry NYPL x
2 Jul 1820 Henry Sidney Breese (gson) ISA Erie Canal; get married! build in brick
27 Jan 1821 Henry Sidney Breese (gson) ISA more questions; sleighing; too old for politics
15 Aug 1821 Sidney Breese (gson) Henry NYPL how to make soil bricks; Indian execution
27 May 1821 Henry Sidney Breese (gson) ISA don't move to Florida; farm news; soil brick questions
5 Oct 1821 Barent Bleecker Lansing
(gson-in-law)
Henry NYPL Dividends on Oneida Factory Stock; tax on hill property
27 Nov 1821 Henry Wm Kimble x doesn't need to borrow money
13 Jan 1822 Henry Sidney Breese (gson) ISA love and family news; questions; dau Jane describes debate
23 Jan 1822 Sidney Breese (grandson) Helen (daughter) NYPL x
13 Jun 1822 Arthur Breese (son-in-law) Henry NYPL Yours of the 10th Inst. was rec'd this morn'g.
23 Jul 1823 Charles Livingston (son) Henry NYHS x
14 Sep 1823 Jane Livingston (daughter) Edwin (son) NYPL It is now 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon,
28 Mar 1824 Henry Mary Paterson (sister-in-law) NYPL x
Sep 1825 Sarah Breese (gdaughter) Henry NYPL tells of children; reverse used for political poem
25 Aug 1826 Henry Charles P. Livingston (son) x love and family news; dreams of canal expansion; questions
25 May 1827 Henry Charles P. Livingston (son) x congrats on birth of dau; farm news; Astor lawsuit
3 Sep 1827 Henry Charles P. Livingston (son) x son's wife's grandmother died; we could move to be near you
21 Dec 1827 Henry Charles P. Livingston (son) x lawsuit; caught cold; questions; family news from sister Susan
Undated Jane (daughter) Elizabeth (daughter) NYPL x





        
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