Turner Ashby, Sr., father of Confederate officer of the same name, writes to George Rust regarding the payment of debts. Virginia, 1832.

Authors

Turner Ashby (Sr.)

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Description

Ashby notes the receipt of a sum of money intended to satisfy a debt to a Mr. Skull; Ashby sends a receipt that the amount has been given to Skull. Ashby also notes that Rust owes Ashby for salt given to cattle.

Transcription

[recto] Rose Hill 5th Decr 1832 Dear Sir Your Man handed me your letter enclosing fifty three dollars + ten cents for Mr Skull which I handed over to him and enclose you his receipt for the same My man states he gave your cattle eleven gallons of salt during their stay which you need put yourself to any trouble about until perfectly convenient I should be glad to see you here again yours respectfully [signed] Turner Ashby

Creation Date

12-5-1832

County

Fauquier County

State/Province

Virginia

Country

United States

Keywords

Turner Ashby Sr., George Rust, Mr. Skull, Rose Hill, Harper's Ferry, debt, payment, salt, cattle, Virginia

Resource Identifier

070425-11

Date Digital

April 2014

Document Type

Manuscript

Publisher

Wofford College

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

Ashby, Turner (Sr.), "Turner Ashby, Sr., father of Confederate officer of the same name, writes to George Rust regarding the payment of debts. Virginia, 1832." (1832). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 219.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/219

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