Find the Missing Check
Document 1799Enclosed is a check on the Bank of the United States for $1485.92. Another check--dated October 5th in Trenton--for the same sum is missing so Hodgdon is asked to notify Miller by post if that check is found.
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[James Miller
Philad[elphia]
[undecipherable] Oct[?] 1793
[undecipherable] check on the Bank [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] for Maj[?] [undecipherable] Dollars]
[845]
[Jo[?] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]]
Sir
I inclose you a chek on Bank of State for fourteen hundred Eighty five Dollars & Ninety two cents — The check I sent you on the Bank Ten[?] [undecipherable] as missing was for the same Sum I drawn in your favour dated Trenton 5th October. If you should hear any thing Similar thank you to inform me [undecipherable] immediately I am Sir
Your Obt
[J. McMillen?]
Philada Octo 8. 1793 [seal]
Col. Sam [Hodgdon?]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Enclosed is a check on the Bank of the United States for $1485.92. Another check--dated October 5th in Trenton--for the same sum is missing so Hodgdon is asked to notify Miller by post if that check is found.
Date
10/08/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1799100880001
Page start
1
Note
Partially illegible.
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
James Miller
Notable locations
Philadelphia