Going Down to My Husband
Document 1794Mrs. PIke asks for an advance of $120 so that she can take her children to visit her husband.
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[Mr Joseph
Forward
D
accountant their
Philadelphia]
[from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Peke
[undecipherable] April 179[undecipherable]]
September the 21
Sir I Take the Lebesty of wrighting to you once More and Most Humbly Beg you will Grant me this one Request more which I am Indebted to Ask by your Later of the 20 of July That is to Advance the Sume of A Hundred &20 Dollars as Soon as Possible to inable me to go Down to my Husband and you Particularly Oblige him as Well as my Self for he has Rote for me in Those Letters to come this fall and Not to Hold and as above half the Money you have been hindemy to Send me has gone for old Debts Contracted Before my Husband wentaway it has obliged me to Make This aplication which As you will Not Disabling my Husband you will Not Hate No Reak in Leting me have it and I will Promis you for your Consolation you Shall Not hear from me in Some Months ago The Reason Theloigh to have it Some it will be very Teugeou Tracking with my little Children when it is Cold and the Sooner the Better Please to inform me how Long my Husband Pleas to Stay before the 3 years is up Let me No if you have heard from him and plans of Presede if to Comply with my Request and I Shall ever To Comply with my greatest Jours from Humbal Acknowledg it as the greatest /
Servent Isabel Peke
Pleas to Derect your
Letters to Joseph Tucker Near
Bridgtown Postofes
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Mrs. PIke asks for an advance of $120 so that she can take her children to visit her husband.
Date
09/21/1794
Author
Recipient
Document number
1794092170001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
Isabel Pike
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
old debts

