Requesting the Authority Under Which Hodgdon Purchased Land
Document 1801Request for authority on which Hodgdon bought land. Records consumed in fire.
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[In the Corps of the [undecipherable] States in the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] by d 21 [undecipherable] Saml [undecipherable] No 7]
Isaac Hodgson Esqr.)
[Philadelphia?] [Penn?]) Accountants Office
February 10 1801
Sir
On settlement of the accounts of [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] there has arisen a credit for the [undecipherable] articles [undecipherable] sold [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] of Capt named [undecipherable] [undecipherable] viz
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for six [undecipherable] — 6 doz 27
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — — 2 59
6 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 2 camp [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — — — 3 [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] ten [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — — 10 [undecipherable]
[circled: [undecipherable] 43 [undecipherable]]
Amounting to the sum of [undecipherable]
on which you will be pleased to make the proper entries on the Books of the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Stores
Saml [undecipherable]
Isaac Hodgson Esqr.)
[Philada]) February 14 1801
Sir
I have [undecipherable] your account for [undecipherable] months [undecipherable] 1 [undecipherable] & 21 [undecipherable]. I observe the same as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the Secy of War who at this [undecipherable] of his [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] it will be necessary that you should [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] on which you [undecipherable] the purchase of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is necessary as a [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] the amount.
Saml [undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Request for authority on which Hodgdon bought land. Records consumed in fire.
Date
02/14/1801
Author
Recipient
Document number
1801021421055
Page start
387
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
William Simmons
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
land
fire
records
purchase
voucher
deed

