William Gay Butler letter to Jonathan Butler 2nd, 1823 August 17
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Correspondent (crp): Butler, William Gay, 1799-1857
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William Gay Butler letter to Jonathan Butler 2nd, 1823 August 17
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Letter addressed from Columbia, on a half sheet of paper with no address or indication of postage. The paper is torn and stained with red wax residue where it was sealed. William Gay Butler writes to his father Jonathan Butler in West Hartford about his business in Pennsylvania. After working as an itinerant peddler all year, William was stuck with lots of unsold goods. It was a poor crop year and the prices for goods had dropped too low for him to sell them profitably. William thus wanted to set up a shop at Cannacogig with a Mr. Easton and a Mr. Pott, and had asked Jonathan for a loan. He now writes that he must have been unclear in his letter, as he was asking only for $800 or $1000, not $2000 as Jonathan thought. William writes that if he had $1000, and Mr. Easton had another $1000, along with the $2000 worth of goods he has on hand, then Mr. Pott would loan them $1000 and perhaps with some small credit they could open the shop. He writes further that Jonathan seemed to mistakenly think the shop was up in the mountains, but "it is no more in the mountains than West Hartford, it is just about as near the first mountain as our house is Talcott Mountain. It is in one of the best Counteys in the State on the Cannocogig and as good Land as in the World and a verrey rich Settlement."
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79.23.22
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