She Has Neither Wood Nor Bread
Document 1795Sorber requests a small trifle of money for a woman who has neither bread nor wood. He had previously given her nine dollars from the twenty he had been given.
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[Letter address panel: To / a Jeneral [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] 20]
[Docket notation: Letter from Jacob / John [undecipherable] Morris / 1795 / [undecipherable] [undecipherable]]
Gear? March 4 1795
Sir I must be under the Disagreeable Nessity of begin a Smal Trifel of money for Mrs Mcarnor as Lo Lies Dead & She Told me Last Night that they had Neither bread nor Wood and Cant hofull git Nither he Number 200 Boxes Since Nue yeare I have her 9 Dollars on a Comp of The Twenty you gave me one Monday So if you wil Pleas To Send me hom by The beamar as they are in Reat Destres at horegand by So Doing your wil oblig your Huml Sir.
To Mr Samel Floydon
[By?] Jacob Sorber
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Sorber requests a small trifle of money for a woman who has neither bread nor wood. He had previously given her nine dollars from the twenty he had been given.
Date
03/04/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Germantown
Document number
1795030480001
Page start
1
Note
Partially illegible.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Jacob Sorber
Notable locations
Germantown