Legal Business and Politics
Document 1796Sargent has not received papers from the 4th of May, and hopes to have them soon. He prefers having laws, etc, on file as it makes them easier to refer to later. Discusses Farmer's letter and the President's Communication. Encloses a letter to his sister
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[Filing notation, upper right:] Letter from Colonel / [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] 1796
[Address panel:] Colonel [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. / Philadelphia
[Lower notation:] Colo [undecipherable]
Cincinnati June the 20th 1794
I send you my desire in [your] [undecipherable] the 28th [undecipherable] [undecipherable] hopes, from [the] 4th to the 20th many disclosures — From the 4th my many to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] must been received, and the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] already [undecipherable] did [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] this matter — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] promises good — From [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], see which I am very much to have made use, because [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] matters when they see, but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] many [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to — Be sure The Troubles I give you and consider it [against] your Character — and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] —
I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Former Letter and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] see that you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] to send him [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you an [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he [undecipherable] to make [underline: the payment] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the same [undecipherable] — which he claimed was as that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — and this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you can be [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] it seems, by your [undecipherable] Letter, that you have already done —
I have seen the President, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] two [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] saying and [one] has no Expectations, from the very [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he was [thoroughly] [undecipherable] — My private [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] received [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any be [undecipherable] their good [undecipherable] — in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with this I have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] nothing to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [placed] it [undecipherable] upon it was a [undecipherable] that I must [undecipherable] consequence the [undecipherable] d
proper — it was certainly [undecipherable: necessary] as it relates to the public [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] not have to [undecipherable] [procured], I [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] inconvenience or [public] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] —
To your good [undecipherable] and Friend [undecipherable] [undecipherable] —
a [undecipherable]
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[Postscript:] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for my [undecipherable] — To [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — whenever I with [dispatch] I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Sargent has not received papers from the 4th of May, and hopes to have them soon. He prefers having laws, etc, on file as it makes them easier to refer to later. Discusses Farmer's letter and the President's Communication. Encloses a letter to his sister
Date
06/20/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Cincinnati
Document number
1796062080101
Page start
1
Note
Difficult to read
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Winthrop Sargent
Farmer
Shattuck
President
George Washington
Secretary
Governor
Timothy Pickering
Edumund Randolph
sister
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Notable items
papers
list
laws
treaties
public matters
file
trouble
character
payments
communication
public attention

