Collection Name
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Canal Boats
Media Items
Media Items
Media Items
ItemID
wcco091
IDEntry
5834
Creator
Waters and Zimmerman [?]
Date
1852-02-11
Collection Location
Sharpsburg, Maryland
Original size
28 x 22 cms
Coverage
Maryland, 1824-1938
Body
Alexandria, Feb 11, 1852
Mr. Stephen P. Grove
Dear Sir
Your letter of Feb 9th 1852 we recd this morning. We will take for one of our boats $900 - $300 Cash- balance paid in 6 & 9 mos. bearing[?] interest with security. This is the best we can do. We have been offered not far from that amt already - We apprehend no difficulty in getting that price.
Yrs Respy
Waters & Zimmerman
Notes
The document belongs to Patricia Hammond.
The 1850 census shows Benjamin Waters and Neuben Zimmerman of Alexandria as lumber merchants. S. P. Grove of Sharpsburg was listed in both the 1850 and 1860 census as a farmer, (not a coal merchant, as the letter implies).