Fur Trade
Document 1798Furs trading prices and number of furs recounted, Indians dissatisfied with price from October. No money to pay the Indians.
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[undecipherable] Friday [undecipherable] War Dept [undecipherable]
I came dear [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] [this?] must
[put?] to [his?] for money, to defray the [expenses?]
of travel [undecipherable]. The Sally [Mattlock?] [undecipherable] arrived
[this?] day & others [have?] been [sent?] by [undecipherable] [path?]
[undecipherable] some few I understood were [wit?] in
[suffering?] — [such?] in a wagon which I [made?] the
[driver?] allow for [undecipherable] the [Wallan?] wrote me about 20
[male?] forward [undecipherable] [price?] with every [load?] that
will enable our agent [undecipherable] [give?] you the [undecipherable]
[continuing?] them by [post?] at [stated?] times, in
[price?] of [delivery?] there has been [invariably?] 25 [cents?]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [seller?]
but try to [post?] [after?] the goods when they [get?]
[bear?] at the [Anderson?] would [benefit?] the [relieved?]
at [lower?] the [price?] of [delivery?]. The [bills?] for [debt?]
[undecipherable] were for monies [undecipherable] for the [generation?] of
[undecipherable] the [fasting?] [expenditures?] of [nearly?] [undecipherable] I
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [could?] [death?] greatly [undecipherable]
for [privates?] to [pick?] the [thorns?] of the [feder?] [undecipherable]
[Hacking?] [required?] one to do it, the one for
1500 d[ollars?] was or not of my [Salary?] — I adopted
this mode of [drawing?] [undecipherable] the Sect of [Treasury?]
at the [recommendation?] of [M?] [undecipherable]
if you will [send?] [undecipherable] I will [be?] [off?]
[undecipherable] to you, I [dost?] [partly?] [comprehend?] [undecipherable]
"must be [drawn?] from the War Dept thru me as
[undecipherable] [Sent?] for my [account?] the Second [appropriation?]
or [one?] of the many [more?] than the [general?]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] the [fasting?] [manufacturing?] of War my [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [out?] of [duty?] [undecipherable] has not [mad?]
the [advances?] the [Demon?] — The [Judy?] [most?]
[undecipherable] [Attorney?] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [lowest?] [price?] I have been
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [giving?] [Savanna?] to [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [dol?] [undecipherable] the [price?] of
[transportation?] is very great — [undecipherable] [paid?] 3 [undecipherable] [our?]
[have?] [it?] [invariably?] [earlier?] no money for [children?]
of the [undecipherable]
On the 11th [July?] as I was [then?]
a man named Nicholas [undecipherable] was shot
[undecipherable] [mouth?] of [Little?] [undecipherable] by an [undecipherable]
from the [opposite?] side of [undecipherable] [James?] at the [going?]
of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] years on the [information?] I [mention?]
the [first?] man was [one?] of [undecipherable] [character?]
the [drawing?] [stoles?] [undecipherable] the [late?] [attack?] by the
[family?] [calculated?] [falls?] upon the [innocent?]
[undecipherable] to me that the [unnecessary?] [delay?]
[design?] of the [demon?] to [furnish?] me [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [daily?] [undecipherable] [depriving?] [undecipherable]
[prevents?] me from making much [progress?] in the [adjustment?]
ment of my [lost?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [am?] [burned?] [undecipherable]
as to [made?] [this?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [aval?] of the [day?]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Furs trading prices and number of furs recounted, Indians dissatisfied with price from October. No money to pay the Indians.
Date
02/20/1798
Author
Recipient
Document number
1798022040201
Page start
1
Notable persons
Edward Price
Secretary of War
James McHenry
Indians
Indian Nation
Creeks
Notable locations
trading post
Notable items
furs
pelts
money

