Gideon Buckingham, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 13 December 1771
Date3 December, 1771
abstractGideon Buckingham to Eleazar Wheelock. Regarding hay and keeping of enslaved people Hagar and Nando. 13 Dec 1771. Milford.
RepositoryRauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.
Call NumberMS 1310: Eleazar Wheelock collection, Box 24, Folder 771653.1
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Dear ſir
Informing me of your want of Money, for I have uſed all
my indevours but can't procure you only £
M.r Smith is very Sorry he has put you to ſo much
trouble to so little effect, but cannot by any Means
raiſe the Money at preſent altho his Circumſtances are
Good - Your land at preſent is but of little advantage
to you, have not rec.d any thing for this Summers Rent at present
as I was not able to ſell much of the Hay and the Land had a
Crop of English Grain upon it which is now in the Barn.
my Father thinks it would be much the beſt for you to
Dispoſe of it, and thinks it will ſell very well as land goes
but not for ſo much as it was
and there must be a time for payment -- Hagar still
continues to be a Charge and it now falls to your Lott to keep
her, do not expect to get her kept for leſs than four & 6d
a Week -- Their is still ſome Debts of Nandors Contracting
due but am not able to Collect enough at preſent to pay Doctr Gails
Order and am afraid it is returned to you as a letter of
his was mislaid and I did not receive it in a Month from
the Date, but wrote him this Morning --
ſir we all enjoy a good State of helth at preſent
and are glad to hear of yours and your Families and
of the agreeable proſpect you have before you --
Gideon Buckingham