Item 40: Letter from Jonathan Heart to Zebulon Butler, 1787 July 21
Item — Box: 10, Folder: 42
Dates
- Created: 1787 July 21
Creator
- Heart, Jonathan, 1748-1791 (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:
Okay. The paper is separated into two separate pieces, contains minor stains and tears, has some tattered edges, and is browning.
Measurements:
13 ½ in. x 8 ⅛ in. (longest); 13 ½ x 7 in. (shortest)
Description:
This letter written by Jonathan Heart, a Major with the 2d United States Infantry, is an update to Zebulon Butler about a package that was sent, as well as a discussion of some politics that were involved with the Susquehanna Claim.
Transcription:
French Creek 21 July 1787
I have taken the freedom to send of a Small Package to your charge & will thank you to take the most speedy & jose conveyance possible. The Bearer Mr. Mead informs me the long Contests of Susquehanna Claimants is likely to be settled his business into this Country I conclude has been on that grounds, have requested him to call on you he will give better information where I am & the general Politics of this Country than I can do in the composs [sic] of a letter-as to the Affairs of the Eastern States I know nothing of them as I left Hartford in August 1785- have since that time been on the Ohio until last April when I came to this Place-- please make my Respects to such Gentlemen as I have the Honor to be acquainted with in your settlements & accept the asouses once that with obet Esteem
I am -
Your most [illegible due to damage]
humble servt
Jonathan Heart
Colonel Zebulon Butler
Creator
- Heart, Jonathan, 1748-1791 (Person)
Repository Details
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