Fond du Lac Wisconsin Dec. 25, 1849.

 

To Mr John Hitz

Washington D.C.

 

Dear Sir

                        I owe you an apology for not writing you in reply to yours of Dec. 1848. I had removed from Stockbridge to Green Bay previous to the receipt of your letter, and in the perplexity of removing and other things forgot all about taxes as I had some to pay myself. The Collector wrote me upon the subject but his letter was delayed and did not reach me until the day he made his returns. I then wrote to two different men to pay up your taxes and some others, as both had money belonging to me in their hands but they delayed, and I could not get them paid and settled properly until after the sale had been made for taxes. As I was traveling most of the time in the northern part of the state and at home but little it was not until a number of months had passed that I could get the receipts all correct, owing to the tardiness of the / men I wrote to to do my business and the blunder of the County Clerk, and to much time had passed that I thought I would not write until the taxes were made out for this year and paid. Accordingly passing through Stockbridge a few days ago I called upon the Collector and upon examing his Tax Roll found only one lot taxed this year. I suppose it was by mistake that the other was omitted. The taxes both last year and this also, have been much higher than formerly owing as it is said to losses sustained by not being able to collect taxes from the Indian party in Stockbridge.

 

            Enclosed are the receipts for both last year and this also, amounting in all to five Dollars and 58½ cents.

 

            With regard to money paid out for taxes on Mr J's lots as I am absent from my place of residence I have not one of the receipts and cannot state exactly how much I had paid out. I perceive that in May 1847 I received your letter containing five Dollars out of that I paid one dollar and 65 cents for taxes for 1846. The receipt for 1849 I perceive by my memorandum I forwarded to you but have not the amount noted down in it, but have a duplicate I believe at home, but perhaps you have the one I sent on file. Then the / amount paid for last year and this also is put down above. If you have that receipt please to add it to the above and then then you may send me in a letter the balance due me after deducting the five dollars which I received from you in 1847. Direct your letter to Green Bay Wisconsin. Those lots are now free from all embarrassment as the Collector assured me that he has no demand against the other lot and that no other could be made. With regard to the sale of them I presume that in a very few years there will be a change on the east side of Lake Winnebago. The Indian party has sold out and are expected to leave next year. The improvement of the Fox river was commenced last summer and such progress has already been made and such the interest excited that there is a moral certainty of the full completion of it in two or three years. This has already caused a great rush of immigration to the northern part of the state and I am persuaded that the east and northern part of the unoccupied land around the lake will be taken up by actual settlers, and that there will be eventually a dense population around that lake.        Yours truly,

Cutting Marsh.

 

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Mr John Hitz

            Washington

                        D. C.

 

 

Cutting Marsh

letter 1849

fr Wisconsin

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