Financial and family matters
Document 1784Discusses personal financial matters, family matters, and agricultural conditions in South Carolina.
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[Address: Major General [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / at [undecipherable] in [undecipherable]]
[Endorsement: From [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / Aug[undecipherable]]
Charleston 18th August 179[undecipherable]
Dear Sir
This will be handed to you by Capt Gadsden
he goes to the Northward for his health— I Write
[undecipherable] you last month wherein I acquainted
you I had honoured your [undecipherable] bill Upon
[undecipherable] and [undecipherable] you not Draw upon me for
whatever [undecipherable: Sums] you might want for me
[undecipherable: My] Children and those bills I had of [undecipherable] being
Protested must have obliged you to advance
a Considerable Sum for me which I am
Sorry for I am [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am Under[undecipherable]
Obligations to you than I Ever was to any
other Man in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and I Ever shall
[undecipherable] a Greatfull Sense of your great [undecipherable]
I beg you will Draw upon me So as always to
have money in your hands— I hope to
have the Pleasure to See you the Next
[undecipherable] Shall but be in a bad State [of]
I [undecipherable: hope] for you Mrs Lincoln and all your [undecipherable: families]
[undecipherable: to be] well— I have Not had a letter from Charles
these [undecipherable] months I am very [undecipherable] to hear
where he [undecipherable: is] and how he Comes on [in] his Education
also I have Not had a letter from Jack [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] months. Pleas Desire them to Write
to me Every month at Least— we had [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Untill the Middle of June Since which we
[undecipherable] had So much Rain that a gooddeal of Damage
[undecipherable] Done [undecipherable] Cotton [undecipherable] and Congress [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] more [undecipherable] to make a good Crop—
Mrs Ferguson Joines me in best Respects to you and
Mrs Lincoln and him
Dr Sr
yours [undecipherable] the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable: Jno Ferguson]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Discusses personal financial matters, family matters, and agricultural conditions in South Carolina.
Date
08/10/1784
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Charlston
Collection
Document number
1784081060101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Benjamin Lincoln
Ferguson
Captain Gadsden
Godsden
Ferguson's children
Mrs. Lincoln
Lincoln's family
Charles
Jack
Ben
Mrs. Ferguson
Notable locations
Charlston
Charleston
Northward
Santee River
Congoree River
northern frontiers
Notable items
money
letter
crop
sum
bills
