My Wife May Make Trouble for Me!

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Nov. To Samel Hogdon Eqr

Letter from Jacob Sorber - 20 Novem 1795 [circled:] 305 [stamp:] Received from State Dep’t. Nov. 24. 1894. R.P.O. 401310. guern._. November 21 1795 Sir I Should be verry glad if you will perhaps To Send me a bout Twenty Dollers by The Bearrar of I [undecipherable] Pay The Bearrar Ten of it for Halliny & I am in want for a Trifel at [undecipherable] I [Exppacted?] Some Yestherday and Could Not git a Singel Shilling & I Cant Tell Wether or No be for Night my Wife may macke Som Trobl for me or I shold not aske for it a preasent Sir by Complying you wil oblige Sir your humbl Servan To Mr. Samel Hogdon Jacob Sorber Eqr. [flourish]

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Description

Sorber asks for twenty dollars, ten of which will go to the bearer. If he does not get the money, he worries that his wife will make trouble for him.

Date

11/21/1795

Document number

1795112180001

Page start

1

Note

Partially illegible.

Notable persons

Samuel Hodgdon
Jacob Sorber