One Hundred Dollars Advanced to Mr. Fisher, Etc.
Document 1799Miller has received the $100 advanced to Mr. Fisher together with the $500 paid him on Colonel Wilkins' draft. Fisher says that the draft was one that a General gave him to pass to Hodgdon and Captain Vann corroborates the idea.
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[Address panel, verso:]
[Address:] Sam [undecipherable: Hodgdon?]
[Endorsed:] James [undecipherable]
30 [undecipherable] /99
Au 30-ments m[undecipherable]
[undecipherable] or [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]ment —
May 30- 1799
Sir.
In yours wh I had the pleasure of seeing yesterday you say that the One hundred dollars advanced Mr Fisher afterwards, together with the five hundred "dolls" paid him on [Gen?] Wilkins [strikethrough: undecipherable] "is to be accounted for in your Office— Mr Fisher informs me that the [bill?] alluded to was one that Genl Wilkins gave him merely to receive the money [for?] [him?] from you [so?] that he [undecipherable] paid it to him— [undecipherable] the Same contradicts the Idea— [undecipherable] is the case Mr Fisher has only recd the 115 Dols of wh he is to account with [you?] — 15 [undecipherable] remainder with the office— I am Sir
Your very H[umble] S[ervant]
[signature]
[Margin note, bottom left:] Genl Wilkins only [strikethrough: undecipherable] [undecipherable] Mr Fisher that he was to get from you 100 Dos [of/by his letter?] of wh there is a copy — [undecipherable] contradicts — the [undecipherable] also—
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Miller has received the $100 advanced to Mr. Fisher together with the $500 paid him on Colonel Wilkins' draft. Fisher says that the draft was one that a General gave him to pass to Hodgdon and Captain Vann corroborates the idea.
Date
05/30/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799053080101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
James Miller
Fisher
Colonel Wilkins
General Wilkins
Captain Vance
Notable items
draft

