MacKay_Letter_069
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Title
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MacKay_Letter_069
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Description
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Letter from Charles Bristol to John McKay asking him to procure a job for his mill and in return he will make an aqueduct from his spring to his house. A Mr. Foote wrote a report at the bottom about Mr. Bristol’s previous aqueduct that works well.
Transcription:
Dear Sir I have got my mill in operation have moved my work it does well I wish you to get me the [?] jobb or some large job on the canal I will satisfy you when I fetch your Spring up to your house. I have taken the water from the big spring in the [?] mill in the village of [?] to Mrs. Seth Smiths its completes this [?] good I think you would take pains to get me som large jobb some where in your country. I can raft My timber on some of Uncle Seths rafts next spring - yours with esteeme
[signed] Charles Bristol
[?] 19th July 1894
[written in a different hand]
The aqueduct laid by Esq Bristol for me Pette Smiths operates well, there is no failure, nor any reason to [?] one. I have no doubt that Esq Bristol plan is a good one. I intend to have an aqueduct from a spring to my store in the course of a few weeks
[signed] [?] Foote
Schuyler July 19, 1824
[back]
[?] July 23
John McKay Esq
Calendonia
[written on other edge]
C Bristol
Letter
July 19th 1824
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Identifier
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MacKay_Letter_069.1-2.jpg
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Creator
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Kristen Walker
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Subject
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Letter
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Publisher
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Izzy Moyer; Kristen Walker; Jill Johnson; and Renee Guerin
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Date
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1824.07.19
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Date Created
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2023.10.30
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Type
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Correspondance
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Letter
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Format
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.jpg
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Medium
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Paper
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Rights Holder
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Genesee Country Village & Museum
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Rights
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