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Document 1792Sproat forgot to pay Hodgdon for housing. Offer to pay upon application for sum.
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Harrisburgh 18th Sept 1792.
Sir I forgot to pay you Six pounds Penselvana Currency for the horse left in my Charge at Marietta. If you will please to drawn on me for that Sum it Shall be Honoured on Dept. Captain Handan says Hamilton, give him a Lertificate that the horse Cost 20 dollars I am Clcton to the Contrary it was only 18 dollars. Which I am Ready & Willing to pay. — I am Sir your Most Obt Very Humble St [undecipherable: C.B.Gyneat?]
[address panel: Colonel Saml Hodgdon E Sr]
[postal notation: Harrisburg Sept 17 1792]
[notation: 12x]
[notation: 7 No Co.]
[docketing, lower right: Colonel [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / 1792]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Sproat forgot to pay Hodgdon for housing. Offer to pay upon application for sum.
Date
09/15/1792
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Harrisburgh
Document number
1792091580001
Page start
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Notable persons
Colonel Samuel Hodgdon
Colonel Ebenezer Sproat
Captain Houdin
Houdan
Hamilton
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Harrisburgh
Pennsylvania
Notable items
money
payment
pounds
Pennsylvania currency
horse
Marietta
certificate
contract
pay

