Promises Payment from Hodgdon; Explains Late Payment from Army
Document 1796Hodgdon will pay $150 of the amount due; Gregg apologizes for the delay in payment.
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[by Post]
[undecipherable] —
[undecipherable]
the 11 — 1796
No 40
[seal]
Capt. Samuel Hodgdon
Philadelphia
[Left margin stamp, rotated: [undecipherable] / from / State D[undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / 41175]
Sir, Pittsburgho 2. March 1796
Please pay the inclosed Bill two Hundred Dollars to Thomas Howard. two Hundred and fifty to Sal [undecipherable] Sharpe, One Hundred and fifty to Caswell & Jackson, One Hundred and fifty to Wittberger & Smiths, fifty to Joseph Simmons and two Hundred to Wilson Hunt Merchants —
and Oblige
Sir your Very Humble Servt
Isaac Gregg
Saml Hodgdon Esqre
[Bottom center stamp: Receiv'd / from / State D[undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Hodgdon will pay $150 of the amount due; Gregg apologizes for the delay in payment.
Date
03/02/1796
Author
Sent from
Pittsburg
Document number
1796030290201
Page start
8
Note
Difficult to read
Notable persons
Wittberger and Smith
Wittberger
Isaac Gregg
Samuel Hodgdon
Mr. Jones
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Notable items
receipt
pay
payment of the army