Bounty Lands
Document 1793How asks Hodgdon to provide information referenced in the enclosed extract in which his friend want to know how he should proceed to obtain his bounty lands.
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[Verso address panel: Colo Samuel Hodgdon —]
[Docketing notation, undecipherable]
Philadelphia may 14. 1793—
Dear Sir,
I will esteem it as a very particular favor if you will be so obliging as to give me Some necessary information respecting the Bounty Lands as found or wrote me as p̃ Extract on the other Side I am with Respect
Dear Sir
Your truly Obt humble Servt
[undecipherable]
Colo Samuel Hodgdon —
Extract
I will thank you to call on Colonel Hodgdon and request that he will be so obliging as to inform you in what manner I must proceed to get my Bounty Lands located, the favorable regions and a probable place for location — the [undecipherable] are given to inform me from as far as [undecipherable]
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All [undecipherable] are [undecipherable] is the [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [the Bounties?] he receives and enters all warrants [undecipherable] money, and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they will [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be paid — the [undecipherable] are not yet to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
How asks Hodgdon to provide information referenced in the enclosed extract in which his friend want to know how he should proceed to obtain his bounty lands.
Date
05/14/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1793051480001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Edward How
surveyor
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
survey
remnants
location
valuable place


