Box for My Brother

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Box for My Brother

Description

Murray asks for Hodgdon's assistance in ensuring that a box addressed to her brother arrives safely at its destination in Cincinnati.

year created

1798

month created

05

day created

02

recipient

in image

notable person/group

J. Sargent Murray
Samuel Hodgdon
Captain Gage
Judith Sargent Murray
Winthrop Sargent

notable location

Boston, Franklin Place
Cindinnati

notable item/thing

Schooner "Sally"
favorable wind
box for my brother
journey over the mountains
rough road

document number

1798050255002

transcription

Colonel Samuel Hodgdon
Philadelphia
To the obliging care of
The Honorable W Goodhue
[editor's note: the following lines are upside down]
134 1/2 [editpr's note: the number is circled}
Aug 7

1798
Wm Murray [undecipherable] May
Boston Franklin Place May 2 1798
Dear Sir
I am seriously apprehensive that the frequency of my application to you, will at length exhaust that kindness by which I have been so essentially advantaged - but I know not to whom else to address myself - Although I have this day written to you by post under cover to Mr Thatcher, yet learning that the schooner Sally - Captain Gage Commander - will sail with the first favorable wind for your City - I take leave to apprize you that I have sent on board a box for my Brother, addressed to your care - you will have the goodness to attend to this box, and send it on to Cincinnati by the first safe conveyance - and if you can find a moments leisure to advertize me of its arrival, and the day on which it com-mences its journey over the mountains, you will add essentially to my debt of gratitude - I am fearful the box may be broke, and its contents injured, if not lost in the conveyance over such a rough road - but I have no doubt that you [undecipherable] give the proper directions I trust that you have received the volumes
of the [undecipherable] addressed to you and that they have answered your expectationsI tender my affectionate compliments to your family and am with respectful esteem [undecipherable]your most obedientJ. Sargent MurrayColonel Samuel HodgdonPhiladelphia

Item sets

Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (3 pages) ZPQ05 (3 pages) Collection: Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94) [unknown]

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Judith Sargent Murray [unknown] [n/a]
Recipient Samuel Hodgdon [unknown] [n/a]