Augusta County: Jedediah Hotchkiss to John H. McCue,
January 14, 1858
Summary:
Jedediah Hotchkiss writes to John H. McCue concerning business transactions with
A. S. Barnes & Company and Butler & Company.
January 14 th 1858
Mossy Creek Virginia
Dear McCue Esq!
I send you the case of A. S. Barnes & Company against Hotchkiss & Brodt. I enclose their bill and a note -- [unclear: garnishee] Odor for any claims yet in his hands and there is a bureau & shower bath at the M.C.A. Boarding House that ought to be secured for the payment of this debt. Use the note if you wish -- but it must by no means get into Brodt's hands-- the same of the note which I gave for Butler & Company. If you give them up endorse on them that I owe no part of the debts. Attend to this at once as the Old Scamp is getting wind of our doing and will try to head us off.
The amount due Barnes & Company is $38.64 & I think that can be made from what is in Odor's hands & the Bureau & Bath.
I send you the letter of Barnes & Company & shall inform them that the claim is in your hands.
Attend to the New York Judgement--
Yours truly
Jed. Hotchkiss
