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Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a wealthy Maryland planter and the last signer of the Declaration of Independence to die. This letter, concerning an outstanding debt owed to him, was written 3 years before his death at age 95.

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Baltimore 2d April 1829 Dear Sir In your letter of the 28th Janry you promised to inclose a check for $388.22 on one of the banks in this city [?] of the first Monies which you expected soon to receive The Interest was due the [?] of last December. I think it high time you promises were complied with at the expired one of four months from the time it became due. Yours with respect Dear Sir yr most hum. servant Ch. Carroll of Carrollton

Creation Date

4-2-1829

City

Baltimore

State/Province

Maryland

Country

United States

Creator Life Dates

1737-1832

Keywords

Baltimore, 02 April 1829, 1829, banking, interest, Charles Carroll, Carrollton, debt

Resource Identifier

080531-26

Date Digital

March 2014

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

Economic History | Social History | United States History

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.

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Letter from Charles Carroll of Carrollton concerning outstanding debt owed him. 1829.

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