Purchase on My Account a Lottery Ticket
Document 1800Hagner asks Hodgdon to purchase a lottery ticket for him from the Augustine Church lottery and forward it at the first safe opportunity.
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[Docket notation, upper right: Hagner / [Dec?] 1800; circled filing number: 609]
[Address panel: [undecipherable notation] / Samuel Hodgson Esquire / Philadelphia; circular postmark: WASH]
[Do]
City of Washington
December 1st 1800
I have rec'd your letter dated [undecipherable] — The present serves to request you will purchase on my account a Lottery Ticket in the Magazine Church Lottery. and forward it to me by first Safe opportunity informing me in the mean time of the [undecipherable]— The amount of its cost will be forwarded [by] me with the sum remaining in my Hands belonging [to] you by Post or otherwise as you may direct—
In haste I am
D'r h[—]
yours P. Hagner
Samuel Hodgson Esq
Philadelphia
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Hagner asks Hodgdon to purchase a lottery ticket for him from the Augustine Church lottery and forward it at the first safe opportunity.
Date
12/01/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
City of Washington
Document number
1800120115101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Peter Hagner
Notable locations
Philadelphia
City of Washington