George Bender to David Bender, 30 January 18XX
Wheatland January 30th
 
Dear Father
 
I thought of moving up to Wheatland and I was over to see you on last monday but you was not at home and if you folks among you can move the things over to the station I will be very much o blige to you tell Hugh Frisby to hall a load over if he can and I will be very much o blige to him I will send some money down to mag in this letter and tell hen to pay / John Kelso some for rent and tell him that I will send some down every month till it is all paid you need not send up only three 3 joints of stove pipe you can move over the things this week or the first of next for I haft to pay the rent from the first of the month and the sooner you we come the better tell mag to send up about two bags of potatoes and some cabbage She noes better what to get than I do tell Dallas that if he wants a good job in the spring to come up and I think I can give it to him for I halven the chance of all the fence that I want to bild at / 30 cts a pannel 4 boards high
 
Send woord up the day before Mag starts so I can look for her
 
thiss is all com up and see us
 
them potatoes sell and make all you can out of them and the corn two
 
This is all
                                               
I will look for them Soon
                                                                                               
Yours Truly
George Bender
                                   
Geor Bender
Wheatland      Mercer Co
Penna

 

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(10843)DL1710.046168Letters18XX-01-30

Tags: Crops (Other), Food, Money, Work

People - Records: 2

  • (3853) [writer] ~ Bender, George
  • (3858) [recipient] ~ Bender, David

Places - Records: 1

  • (2522) [origination] ~ Wheatland, Loudoun County, Virginia

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George Bender to David Bender, 30 January 18XX, DL1710.046, Nau Collection