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Title

Letter from Benjamin Lincoln to Eben Parsons regarding the son of a friend from North Carolina, 1796.

Authors

Benjamin Lincoln Jr.

Files

Description

Lincoln writes to Parsons regarding helping a North Carolina friend's son who is attending school in Hingham, Mass., 1796.

Transcription

[recto] Boston 13th Oct 1796 My dear Sir Your long, constant, and kind attentions to me have had their proper influence on my mind and I feel my self bound therefore before I leave town to add to the observations I made to you this morning_ That I have been for some time agent to a North Carolina friend who has had a son at school in Hingham. The lad leaves this on Sunday next + Hingham tomorrow. It is important that I see him there to close a number of accounts he has for board clothing +c. and that my acct[?] which are in Hingham should be copied[?] and sent on_ The propriety of settling matters of this kind in time is a measure the importance of which as a man of business you will admit With esteem + affection I am My dear Sir yours Always B Lincoln Eben Parsons Esq. [verso: addressed to Eben Parsons, Boston]

Creation Date

10-13-1796

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Creator Life Dates

1733-1810

Keywords

Benjamin Lincoln, Eben Parsons, Ebenezer Parsons, North Carolina, Hingham

Resource Identifier

080601-08

Date Digital

November 2013

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

Archival Science | Economic History | Social History | United States History

Publisher

Wofford College

Format (medium)

manuscript

Format (IMT)

PDF

Language

En-us

Digitization Specifications

800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.

Source

The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.

Recommended Citation

Lincoln, Benjamin Jr., "Letter from Benjamin Lincoln to Eben Parsons regarding the son of a friend from North Carolina, 1796." (1796). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 113.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/113

Creative Commons License

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