Unable at Present to Make a Full Settlement
Document 1797Mentges is unable at the present time to make a full settlement but should be able to do so soon. In the meantime, he makes a partial payment of fifty dollars for which a receipt should be given to the bearer.
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[Colonel Francis Montges
22 Aug 1797]
[Received
from
State Dep[artmen]t
Nov 2[undecipherable]]
Colonel Samuel Hodgdon
22d augt [179]7
Sir
It is not in my Power at present to make a full Settlement with you, but I hope it will be in a short Space of time, accept therefore fifty Dollars and please to give a Receipt to the Bearer hereof on account I am with Esteem
your hble servt
[undecipherable: J. Montges?]
mel Hodgdon —
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Mentges is unable at the present time to make a full settlement but should be able to do so soon. In the meantime, he makes a partial payment of fifty dollars for which a receipt should be given to the bearer.
Date
08/22/1797
Author
Recipient
Document number
1797082280001
Page start
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Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
James Mentges