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- GLC#
- GLC08905
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 13 March 1838
- Author/Creator
- Hopkin Brothers (firm), fl. 1819-1838
- Title
- to William B. Stone
- Place Written
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Discusses debts and financial arrangements. Also comments on slaves being used as collateral: "We regret that you have had so much trouble with Keybird the lien on the Negroes is ample security for our debt." Hopkins Brothers was a commission firm founded by Johns Hopkins (who also founded the university named for him). Stone was possibly the William B. Stone who was a merchant merchant in Port Tobacco and Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
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