Promissory Note to Robert E. Lee, 10 September 1840, Nathaniel Childs Jr. Copy
Promissory Note to Robert E. Lee, 10 September 1840, Nathaniel Childs Jr. Copy
Source Note
Source Note
, , , JS, and , Promissory Note, , Adams Co., IL, to Robert E. Lee, 10 Sept. 1840. Version copied 8 Oct. 1840; handwriting of ; docket by unidentified scribe, [, Adams Co., IL, ca. 8 Oct. 1840]; one page; Case Files and Other Records Relating to Suits, 1791–1929, Records of the Solicitor of the Treasury, Record Group 206, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC; microfilm at CHL. Includes seals.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
$4866.38
Illinois 10 Sept 1840
Eight Months after date, we jointly & severally promise to pay to Robt E Lee, agent for the , or order, for the use of said , the sum of Forty eight hundred & Sixty six dollars 38/100 negotiable & payable at the Bank of the State of in for value received without discount or defalcation in specie
Signed seal
seal
seal
Joseph Smith seal
seal
Witness to signatures Wm James Austin, & the three first names
P M at Ill— witness to the two last names.
True copy from the original note now on file for collection in the Bank of the State of
Teller
Oct 8th 1840 [p. [1]]
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Source Note
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Footnotes
Footnotes
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TEXT: Instances of “seal” are enclosed in hand-drawn representations of seals.
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