BIB_ID
80941
Accession number
MA 553.26
Creator
Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832.
Display Date
1793 Jan. 14.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
With a signed postscript dated February 14, 1793; the docket says it is a copy of the letter written to Mr. Wilson on that date.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
With a signed postscript dated February 14, 1793; the docket says it is a copy of the letter written to Mr. Wilson on that date.
Summary
Concerning a survey that was conducted on a piece of land; asking about the quantity of acres the surveyor has surveyed to date, the rivers on which the land is located, "the quality of the Soil, & appearance of the country; whether level or hilly, whether well wooded & [illegible]; whether the timber is large, & the different species of it; and at what distance from Philadelphia, and the mouth of the Susquehanna;" asking for the "meaning of the double selection proposed, out of the larger object referred to - Is this selection to be made from the million of acres Mr. Casenove has contracted for account of the gentlemen of Amsterdam?" adding, in a postscript dated February 14, 1793, that he is sending this copy of the letter dated January 14, 1793 as he has had no reply to his questions and fears something may have happened to the first letter .
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