Confusion Over Location of Reading
Document 1799Corrects a mistake he made in a previous letter concerning clothing - his clerk had believed that Reading was a town in Massachusetts, when in fact it was Pennsylvania.
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Type
Letterbook
Description
Corrects a mistake he made in a previous letter concerning clothing - his clerk had believed that Reading was a town in Massachusetts, when in fact it was Pennsylvania.
Date
08/15/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Collection
Document number
1799081580001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Hodgdon to Stevens, 08/16/1799.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Ebenezer Stevens
clerk
Captain Irwin
Notable locations
Philadelphia
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Reading
Notable items
clothing
mistake
returns
coats
vests
requisition