Missing Trunk with DeButt's Clothing
Document 1796Hodgdon is asked if knows anything about Captain DeButt's trunk, containing his clothing, which was entrusted to Captain Wade in Detroit and which Wade said would be included with the Commander in Chief's baggage. (A note says that the trunk with a saddle and bridle was forwarded by the wagoner James Whiskey on the 17th of June 1796 to Major Craig.)
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[Address panel: Colonel [undecipherable] / three water Street / No 7[undecipherable]]
[Endorsement, upper right: Capt from [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] 1796 / [undecipherable] / 1796]
[Archival stamp: Received / [undecipherable] / R.C. [undecipherable]]
Captain Wade has the pleasure to present his respects to Col[onel] [undecipherable] — should have seen himself the pleasure of visiting him this day — but for his busi[ness] at War office — as [undecipherable] will have time to — morrow morning on a visit to him for the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Captain Wade by [undecipherable] him with the Clothing specified in the order — & which John [undecipherable] his Waiter[s] will hand him —
Phila Octr 29, 1796
In a memorandum which Capt de Butts gave Capt Wade at [undecipherable], he suggested an enquiry might be made at Colonel Hodgdon's office for a Trunk, containing Capt de Butts's Clothing &c — which he said was to be [undecipherable] on with the Commander in Chief — [undecipherable] will Colonel Hodgdon be so obliging as to inform Capt Wade if he knows any thing about this Trunk? —
Nov 29, 1796 The Trunk with a [undecipherable] was [undecipherable] by James [undecipherable: probable reading Tilton] [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] 96 to Maj[or] [undecipherable: probable reading Craig]
Type
Document, type undetermined
Description
Hodgdon is asked if knows anything about Captain DeButt's trunk, containing his clothing, which was entrusted to Captain Wade in Detroit and which Wade said would be included with the Commander in Chief's baggage. (A note says that the trunk with a saddle and bridle was forwarded by the wagoner James Whiskey on the 17th of June 1796 to Major Craig.)
Date
10/29/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1796102980001
Page start
1
Note
This is a an unsigned letter, apparently from Wade, with a note regarding the whereabouts of DeButt's trunk.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
[John] Wade
John Rye, his waiter
Notable locations
No. 71 North Water Street
Philadelphia
Notable items
memorandum

