Item 24: Letter from Zebulon Butler to Colonel Antes, 1780 November 25.
Item — Box: 10, Folder: 25
Dates
- Created: 1780 November 25.
Creator
- Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795 (Person)
Access:
All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.
Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Letter.
Condition Note:
Poor. Vinegar smell. The paper is separated into three separate pieces as it has torn at folds. The paper itself is browning, has some tattered edges, and has minor folds and staining.
Measurements:
9 in. x 7 ⅛ in.
Description:
This letter written by Zebulon Butler concerns supplies as well as a foraging mission.
Transcription:
Wyoming 25 Nov 1780
Sir yours Respecting Forrage [sic] I Received but as the Congress has lately ordered cattle flower & from Pennsylvania to this Post Perhaps the Forrag may come under your Directions if it should then may be Enough Purchased hear we shall want only for 12 or 14 Horses is your order should continue so that you can not supply or give order for A supply I shall be much obliged to you for an answer by the Barrow to let me know what to Depend on so that I may look out in some other Quarter
Your comptians will much oblige you
Humble Servt
Zeb Butler Colonel
Col Antis
Creator
- Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu