Accounts include Errors Based on Translation of Pounds to Dollars

Item

Type

Author's Letterbook Copy

Title

Accounts include Errors Based on Translation of Pounds to Dollars

Description

Account of bills paid. Discovered error in statement from translating pounds and shillings into dollars. Reports having dined with Schaimerhorne and finding him extremely fine--polite, sensible, agreeable.

year created

1799

month created

05

day created

29

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

in image

note

Cited in Stevens to Hodgdon, 06/04/1799.

cited note

Cited document sent from the War Office

notable person/group

Ebenezer Stevens
Samuel Hodgdon
McLean
Schaimerhorne
Mrs. Stevens

notable location

Philadelphia
Bank

notable item/thing

Draft
Pounds
Shillings
Dollars

notable idea/issue

Repayment
Loans

document number

1799052928055

page start

459

number of pages

1

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (560 pages) BJA01 (560 pages) Collection: Samuel Hodgdon Letterbook, Philadelphia, Pa., Arsenal, 1798-99. P: 459

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Samuel Hodgdon Philadelphia [n/a]
Recipient Ebenezer Stevens [unknown] [n/a]