Letter from Henry Baldwin to Henry Clay, 14 January 1808

Letter from Henry Baldwin to Henry Clay

Dr. Sir

Pittsburgh 14 January 1808

I wish you would urge Dr Mayersbach to the payment of the note in your hands, He has had a reasonable indulgence; and I cannot conveniently wait longer on him. When the money is received I will thank you to pay it either to the order of George Robinson Esquire¹ of this place or remit it to him by post deducting a liberal compensation for collection - yours with esteem

HENRY BALDWIN

Endorsements on verso²

Please to pay the proceeds of the within Order to S & G Trotter³
H Clay Esqr. GEO: ROBINSON

Recd. ($200) Two hundred dollars on a/c of the within 28 Apl 1808.
SAM & GEO TROTTER

Footnotes

1. Later an Associate Judge of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

2. AES; and ES, in Clay's hand.

3. Brothers, Lexington merchants. George Trotter, Jr., later a State representative from Fayette County and a brigadier-general at the Battle of the Thames, died in 1815. Samuel then continued the business alone.

Source: The Papers Of Henry Clay Vol I 1797-1814, Page 316