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Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736-1790) letter from December 6, 1777

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English: Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736-1790) letter from December 6, 1777
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Source https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/items/show/253
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Text in Dutch

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Door ‘s Heeren goede voorzienigheyt quamen wy des saturdags te huys ende vonden de onsen wel. Ick stopten by de Tresurier Lotten: hier in gesloten is de staat van die bant. Ick syde dat [iet?]wat over de duysent ponden op betaalt is geweest zoo Dat Dit belope Interest moet zyn. Ick hadde [..?]arre na geen gelt genoeg met my omse af te betalen. [heb?]se daarom so gelaten. Ick vergat na Jacoba Goven(?) [nader?] te vragen. Avontmaels bezigheden hebben my [..?] mijn(?) [..?] bezigheden gegeven het een & ander heeft belet het reytuyg eerder te verzenden Schrijve dese wynige in haast, wijl de neger gereet maakt om af te gaan. Ick hebbe het voorregt UE onsen aller welstant te berigten. Hier is niets nieuw, als dat de Forten bij de chiverde Frisen [cheveaux de frise] weg zyn & de Veyan[t] en een gedeelten haarder schepen, [..?] hebben. Hoe het verder gaan zal zal de teyt leere. Mijn lieve egtgenoot & kinderen paaren haar liefde groet by de mynen aan UE, onse geliefde Moeder suster ende de verdere Familie & Vrienden en dus blyve ik Waarde & veel geliefde Vader

UEd. D;W:D(ienaar) & soon Jacob R. Hardenbergh

English translation

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Thanks to the Lord’s good providence we came home on Saturday and found ours well. I stopped at Treasurer Lotten’s: enclosed is the state of that bond. I said that over a thousand pounds have been paid over it so that this must be accrued interest. I did not have enough money with me to pay it off so I left it this way. I forgot to ask after Jacoba Goven(?). Supper kept me busy and several things prevented me sending the carriage earlier.

I am writing these few words in a hurry while the negro is getting ready to leave. I have the privilege to report you of our wellbeing. Here nothing is new, other than that the forts at the cheveaux-de-frise have gone and the enemy and part of their ships have […?]. How things will go from now time will tell.

My dear spouse and children join their loving greeting with mine to you, our dear mother, sister, and other family and friends and I am thus remaining, honored and much beloved father,

your willing servant and son Jacob R. Hardenbergh

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