Money and I Have Become Strangers

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Philadelphia. Feby 14^th 1790 Dear Sir After a Siege of Nine Months. I am left so weak and debilitated as to be scarcely able to walk across the room and what is worse, Money & I have become Strangers, relying on your Friendship. I wou'd be infinitely Oblig'd to you to get my account settled. as I have promis'd on the Morrow to pay a Negro Dury, who like myself is a Dutchman whose hearts are seldom touch'd with the finer feelings of humanity, who has [strikethrough: threatened] if not pay'd on to Morrow I must visit a larger house than my own. you may rely Dear Sir. on the word & honour of a Soldier that I have not one Dollar in the house at this moment I Remain Dear Sir Your Oblig'd Friend & humble Serv^t. To Col. Sam^t Hodgdon [undecipherable: probable reading Jose Nithes] [Docket: Min[undecipherable] Francis Fisher, Feb 14 1790, Rec. 14]

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After a seige of nine months, Fischer finds himself so debilitated as to be rarely able to walk across the room. He and money have become strangers so he asks Hodgdon to settle his account. He has promised to pay a Negro Dunn on the morrow but, like all Dutchmen, Dunn's heart is rarely touched with the finer feelings of humanity. Fischer has not one dollar in his house at the present time.