Payment of a Bill
Item
Type
Draft Letter / Draft Document
Title
Payment of a Bill
Description
The author is asking whether Mr. Petit will or will not pay a bill drawn by Tom Marshall of South Carolina. If he will not pay, the recipient should write to another South Carolinian to determine the disposition of the bill. He also wants to know the whereabouts of the millstones and miller he requested.
year created
1784
month created
02
day created
05
author
sent from location
Boston
recipient
in collection
in microfilm
in image
note
Cited in Hodgdon to Lincoln, 02/26/1784.
cited note
Cited document addressed to the War Office
notable person/group
Samuel Hodgdon
Benjamin Lincoln
Mr. Petit
Mr. Carlton
Tom Marshall
Mr. Jergenson
miller
Mr. Ferguson
notable location
Boston
Charleston, South Carolina
notable item/thing
bill
hands
directions
millstones
pay
document number
1784020580001
page start
1
number of pages
3
transcription
To Sam. Hodgdon Feb. 5. 1784
Dear Sir,
I wrote to you some time since [undecipherable] a bill drawn by some merchants in Charleston S. Carolina on M. Petit which title I left in the hands of M. Carleton I wish you would know whether M. Petit will or will not pay it - If he will not pay it I wish you would write to M. Ferguson of S. Carolina on the
and take his directions [undecipherable] it - If M. Petit will pay it I should be glad to honor it -
I also wrote [undecipherable] mill stones and a miller I should be begging to know whether you are beheld to [undecipherable] or not - it is necessary I should soon know [undecipherable] the stone officially as I [undecipherable] for them if they are not to be obtained [undecipherable] with you.
Sam Hodgdon
Dear Sir,
I wrote to you some time since [undecipherable] a bill drawn by some merchants in Charleston S. Carolina on M. Petit which title I left in the hands of M. Carleton I wish you would know whether M. Petit will or will not pay it - If he will not pay it I wish you would write to M. Ferguson of S. Carolina on the
and take his directions [undecipherable] it - If M. Petit will pay it I should be glad to honor it -
I also wrote [undecipherable] mill stones and a miller I should be begging to know whether you are beheld to [undecipherable] or not - it is necessary I should soon know [undecipherable] the stone officially as I [undecipherable] for them if they are not to be obtained [undecipherable] with you.
Sam Hodgdon
Item sets
Document instances
In image | In source | Location in source | |
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[view document] (3 pages) | FDA04 (3 pages) | Collection: Robert Goodloe Harper | [unknown] |
[view document] (0 pages) | [no image] | Microfilm: Benjamin Lincoln Papers | [unknown] |
Document names
Type | Name | Location | Notes |
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Author | Benjamin Lincoln | Boston | [n/a] |
Recipient | Samuel Hodgdon | [unknown] | [n/a] |