Advanced Wages
Document 1794[Partly illegible] Hunt cannot engage men without advancing a part of their wages with the promise that the remainder will be paid upon their return so he requests $500 in post notes.
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[Trenton 27 Sept] [6]
Samuel Hodgdon, Esquire
Philadelphia
[Docket notation, rotated: Lamberton 27 Sept 1791 / Peter Hunt / [undecipherable]]
Lamberton 27th September 1791.
Sir
I have forwarded to Trenton and Carlisle on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Brave [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will be a militia or [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable].
I have had some difficulty in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] not engage them without advancing to each a part of their Wages and a promise of the remainder immediately on their return which obliges me to claim [undecipherable] and by [undecipherable] Five Hundred Dollars in Post Bank Notes payable to me only as soon as Convenient my private engagements having taken from me more than [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] makes [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at this time.
I remain Sir
Your most humble Servant
Peter Hunt
[stamp]
Samuel Hodgdon, Esquire
Type
Letter Signed
Description
[Partly illegible] Hunt cannot engage men without advancing a part of their wages with the promise that the remainder will be paid upon their return so he requests $500 in post notes.
Date
09/27/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Lamberton
Document number
1794092780001
Page start
1
Note
There is a duplicate of this document in the Peter Hunt Letterbook.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Peter Hunt
Notable locations
Lamberton
Carlisle
Notable items
private engagements
cartouche boxes

