Letter from Samuel Hodgdon to William Knox request for pay for Mr Trimble for wagon transport
Document 1791Hodgdon requests that William Knox pay Mr Trimble 3 days of hauling of public goods. Asks that he be paid $3.00 per day. He has behaved well and his loads were delivered in good order.
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[Docket: Letter from [undecipherable] to [H?] William [Knox] July 2d 1791]
[Received [undecipherable] N. Dep[artment] [undecipherable]]
[Address: [Wm?] [H?] William Knox / Philadelphia]
Sr [undecipherable: probable reading "Albany July 2d 1791"]
The bearer Mr [undecipherable] came with his Waggon three Days [hauling?] [Public?] Stores from the [undecipherable] to the New Stores I think it was three Days or thereabouts and it [strikes?] me I was to allow him at the rate of three Dollars per Day —
what is right you will make out in a [separate?] account and pay him, he has [behaved?] well with his loading and delivered it in good order —
I am Sr
Your Most Obt Servt
Samuel [Hodgdon?]
Mr William Knox
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Hodgdon requests that William Knox pay Mr Trimble 3 days of hauling of public goods. Asks that he be paid $3.00 per day. He has behaved well and his loads were delivered in good order.
Date
07/02/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburg
Repository
Document number
1791070228101
Page start
1
Notable persons
William Knox
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr Trimble
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
New Stores
Notable items
wagon loads
horses
public stores
