Future Rent
Document 1794Hodgdon explains that he expected the rent on the house would be higher for a new contract so he wants to know how Steinmetz calculated the rent he offered. He wishes to retain the stores for the use of the public at a reasonable rent. He is willing to commence a new rent at such time as may be agreed on at fifty percent above the current rent for one year only.
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[Copy of a Letter to Mr [undecipherable]]
[Supt Feb 8, 179[undecipherable]]
I have received your Letter [undecipherable: aiming] to be a Copy of one sent to me on the 3d September, but which never came to hand
It will not be new to you to be told that if you [undecipherable: entertain] [undecipherable] Hopes I do not admit that any Lease has [undecipherable: expired] by [undecipherable] to you I conceive that I am intitled to hold them by the verbal contract and [undecipherable: as] the [undecipherable] to near, I hope this misunderstanding may be eventually accommodated [strikethrough: [undecipherable] this month [undecipherable]] [strikethrough: I am candid enough] to acknowledge that I expected the Rent would be higher when a new contract should be made — but I assure you I contemplate no such difference as you mention nor a [undecipherable] of it I wish you to [undecipherable: inform] me what calculation has [undecipherable: formed] your [undecipherable: aggre]gate — [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] another property The [undecipherable] I admit is a valuable one, but the House is no [undecipherable: desirable]
[undecipherable] willing to resign it the moment I can better accommodate myself — The House I should wish to retain for the use of the Public at a reasonable rent, if a separation can be [undecipherable: effected upon it] and we cannot agree neither [undecipherable: amicab]ly nor [undecipherable: separately] on a New Lease I must also look out for an entire accommodation — But as you have named a [undecipherable] that you [undecipherable] perhaps you may wish to [undecipherable: know] [undecipherable: my] ideas on the subject — I will candidly give them I am willing [undecipherable: to commence] a New rent at such time as may be agreed on at fifty per Cent above this present rent to continue for One year only — When you have [undecipherable: perused] what I have written, I shall be glad to [undecipherable] you in the mean time I remain [undecipherable] your [undecipherable: most obedient humble] Servt
Type
Letter fragment
Description
Hodgdon explains that he expected the rent on the house would be higher for a new contract so he wants to know how Steinmetz calculated the rent he offered. He wishes to retain the stores for the use of the public at a reasonable rent. He is willing to commence a new rent at such time as may be agreed on at fifty percent above the current rent for one year only.
Date
02/08/1794
Author
Recipient
Document number
1794020828001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Steinmetz to Hodgdon, 02/12/1794.
Notable persons
John Steinmetz
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable items
lease
verbal contract
misunderstanding
rent
contract
house