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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
BILL OF ExoHANGE
$1500$
Sain Genevieve June 28, 1807
Mr ELIAS AUSTIN ELI..IOTr Sixty Days after sight of this my first of Exchange Second of the same Tener unpaid paid I pay to Mr Horice Austin Middletown'. or Order fifteen Hundred Dolle.rs agreeable to Orders receiv'd, fur- ther o.dvice unnecessary- • MosEs· AusTIN [Rubric] Saint Genevieve June 28 th 1807 Accepted on condition the Cargo Arrives safe in New York.- Er.us AusTI?(' ELLIOTl'. {Endorsements:] Pay Henry Austin or order Value received • New Haven 11n.rch 18 th 1808 Receiv 4 Moses Austin Note of Hand for Seventeen Hundred and Eighty two Dollars, twenty Nine Cents- HENRY AUSTIN Saint Genevieve March 3, 1811
DAN B1ssELL TO MosEs AusTIN
DEAR Sm Your favour of the 5 th Inst. Came duly to hand-When you, and Mra Austin Shall arr1ve,-Every thing, that the nature of the case, will admitt, shall be done to make the intended Journey, Consonant to each of your feeling- Mr McNair my friend will tell you particularly my Ideas of trav- eling and, the rout and mode I leave for you, and the lo.dies to fix, on I Cincerely hope they may be on ther way by the 1•t of Augt.-J have written my Colonel for permission to accompany them R little distance-but have little to expect-adeu Mra Bissell .Joines me in, complemts to yourself and Lady • • DAN BISSELL M Austin Esqr St Gennavie
TIMOTHY PHELPS TO MosES AusTIN
St. Genevive 22 July, 1807
DEAR Sm I am happy to learn, by your Letter of the 18 th • Inst· that you have made so good a determenation- Co,rry it into complete effect and unquestionably you will derive much satisfaction from it--You have ample means to do the.se Things, in my Opinion, my Friend, nothing should prevent me from doing ·itr--It will close the mouths of many cemplaining Persons-If you could form one other resolution and
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