Sending Cotton from Natchez to Orleans, Etc.
Document 1798The following are the few legible portions of this document: my expenses; Orleans; expense of sending cotton from Natchez to Orleans is eighty cents per one hundred; horseman; bristle; reins; buckles; belts;
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[Address wrapper: Car[e of] [undecipherable] | Philadelphia | Car[e of] [undecipherable]]
[Received from State Dep't Nov. 24, 1894 R P O 401310] [400]
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[First page of letter illegible]
Mississippi Territory [undecipherable]
Novr the 1[undecipherable], 179[undecipherable]
my dear Sir
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[undecipherable] I have [undecipherable] you on [undecipherable]
my rec[o]mendations perhaps in a manner
not exactly adapted to my Finance and
very probably hereafter may have occasion
unavoidably to increase my Expences in
[undecipherable] From the [undecipherable] of this [undecipherable]
Custom[s] are, to be made up the [undecipherable] therefrom
would [undecipherable] be good enough to let me know
the price of Letters at Philadelphia [undecipherable] &
Boston[undecipherable] and I address some by your [undecipherable] friend
after sufficient Enquiry if in the Cotton [undecipherable] State[s]
is from Orleans to either of the before men-
tioned places or vice versa as the latter —
The Expence of writing Letters from Natchez to
Orleans is 80. Cents per hundred —
Will you give me the price of Bagging [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] per bale — And me also [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] from Currants in your Places —
If I have occasion to send Cotton to your
City, whom would you recommend as a punctual
mercantile Friend —
I want you to send me my [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] some [undecipherable] Conveyance — and [undecipherable] good
[undecipherable] disappointments my [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
with you — Sincere regards from M[undecipherable]
Adieu [undecipherable]
please send me and an Elegant [undecipherable] with a [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Returned [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] have as your
[undecipherable] And to best and [Halsters?] [undecipherable] Pickles are [undecipherable]
lage as any Horsemans also a Neck Bridle — on
the [undecipherable] reins, head [undecipherable] is fixed as to be put to
the Throttle by Buckles — I have tolerable good
Brittes —
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
The following are the few legible portions of this document: my expenses; Orleans; expense of sending cotton from Natchez to Orleans is eighty cents per one hundred; horseman; bristle; reins; buckles; belts;
Date
11/01/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Mississippi Territory
Document number
1798110180001
Page start
1
Note
Mostly illegible.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Winthrop Sargent
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Mississippi Territory

