$1000 for the Quartermaster's Department
Document 1799Ernest has drawn on Hodgdon one thousand dollars in favor of J & A Hunt for the use of the Quartermaster's department.
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[Mathew Ernest —
10 April 1799
Recd 23 May '99
Advins of a dreft for
1000 Dollars]
[undecipherable: vertical docket notation]
[undecipherable] 10th 1799.
Sir,
I have [undecipherable] drawn on you, —
payable fift[undecipherable] [undecipherable] date, in favor
of Messrs. [undecipherable] for One thousand
Dollars, for [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable]
and hope the [undecipherable] will be duly
honor'd. The [undecipherable] will be ad[undecipherable]
thereof. —
I am Sir, your obt. Servt
Matt: Ernest
[undecipherable]
[Samd. Hogdon Esqr.
Agent for D[undecipherable].
Philadel.]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Ernest has drawn on Hodgdon one thousand dollars in favor of J & A Hunt for the use of the Quartermaster's department.
Date
04/10/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Detroit
Document number
1799041080001
Page start
1
Note
Partially obscured.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Matthew Ernest
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Detroit