Request for Employment
Document 1799Having been recommended for employment by James Ash, Cumming takes the liberty of asking a great favor of "Hodgkison" to employ him in the same station once held by John Lee.
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[William Cummings
Note 14th March
1799
Wants employment.]
[signature]
[undecipherable: probable reading Ansd]
[Mr Hodgkinson — address, written upside-down]
[594]
March the 14 1799
Sir Being Some time Past Accommodated by Mr James Ash to you to Give me Imploy if any thing Shold turn up I have taken the Liberty of asking as Agrate favour of you if you will Give me the Same Station that Mr John Lee Held in your Imploy
I Remain With Respect your Humbel Servent
William Cummings
Mr Hodgkinson
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Having been recommended for employment by James Ash, Cumming takes the liberty of asking a great favor of "Hodgkison" to employ him in the same station once held by John Lee.
Date
03/14/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1799031480101
Page start
1
Note
[The author misspells Samuel Hodgdon's surname as "Hodgkison" ]
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
William Cumming
Notable locations
Philadelphia