Failed Postal Delivery of Rolls
Document 1798Freeman supposed failed postal delivery inhibited his receipt of the rolls due for settling accounts.
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[Docketing on address leaf: Savannah 24 July 1799 / Colonel [undecipherable: Pickman?] / No. 4 [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] 3]
Savannah
24th July 1795
Sir,
I have written [undecipherable] [letter?] to you since my return to this place — on the [undecipherable] of [last?] month[.] I informed you that I had not all the [undecipherable] estimated upon [undecipherable: Transactions?] I have [undecipherable] now [undecipherable] that I [should?] receive certified [from?] your Office, but they have not come to [hand?] [undecipherable] since the [failure?] of the post[,] [it?] has [been?] [undecipherable] given [undecipherable] [to?].
[The?] [Price?] came to [hand?] on the [6th?] [instant?] and he has received from me the amount of the [inclosed?] vouchers which I request you to [pass?] to [credit?]. You will be pleased to [charge?] me with the [sum?] of Three thousand [undecipherable] dollars and [forty?] [undecipherable] which I have received from him for [undecipherable] [time?] [made?] from the [pay?] of the [Soldiers?] for rations of [provisions?] and [forage?] [paid?] to them by the [undecipherable].
[With?] [Capt?] [undecipherable] and [the?] [undecipherable] [notes?], I could complete the payments of the [late?] [undecipherable] [Lieutenant?] William [D.?] [Steele?] [undecipherable] for what I have already [received?] [undecipherable] in the [settlement?] of my account.
[Lieut?] [undecipherable] [Will?] [Willis?] was [just?] in [undecipherable: McIntosh?] on the [2d?] [of?] [undecipherable] [1799?] for which the [undecipherable] [undecipherable].
[undecipherable] I receive [his?] [undecipherable] [notes?] from — [undecipherable] money remaining in my [hand?] arising from the [undecipherable] is already [undecipherable] now [undecipherable] to discharge this debt.
[undecipherable: Clark?]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Freeman supposed failed postal delivery inhibited his receipt of the rolls due for settling accounts.
Date
07/24/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Savannah
Document number
1798072470101
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Freeman to Simmons, 07/31/1798.
Notable persons
William Simmons
Constant Freeman
Notable locations
Savannah

