Electors Pledged to Vote for Jefferson and Burr
Document 1800Hagner received the lottery tickets, and some sums of money. General Pinckney has written that the appointed electors have pledged to vote for Jefferson and Burr in the presidential election.
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City of Washington
Decr 10th 180[undecipherable]
Dr Sir
yours of 4th Inst. [undecipherable] to — [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] received — and I also received Twenty One Dollars for your
account of [Capt?] Cushing with order that [the sum] was left by
[undecipherable] Wilkinson for your account — News has just
come to [Town] — a letter from Genl Pinckney to Mr
Marshall dated 29th Novr from Columbia — which
mentions that The Electors appointed are Men who
[strikethrough: the] have pledged themselves to vote for Jefferson & Burr —
In haste yours
P. Hagner
[Address: Samuel Hodgdon Esqr / Intendant of [undecipherable] / Philadelphia]
[Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1804. RPO 401310.]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Hagner received the lottery tickets, and some sums of money. General Pinckney has written that the appointed electors have pledged to vote for Jefferson and Burr in the presidential election.
Date
12/10/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
City of Washington
Document number
1800121015001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
Peter Hagner
Major Cushing
General James Wilkinson
electors
General Pinckney
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Mr. Marshall
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
Notable locations
Philadelphia
City of Washington
Washington City
Columbia, South Carolina
Notable items
letter from General Pinckney
lottery tickets
account
elections


