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Box 1

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Moses Myers to C.F. Mercer and Isaac Moses, 1784, 1830

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 66
Identifier: id238987
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains correspondence.

Dates: 1784, 1830
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Myers Papers (II) / Series 1: Correspondence / Box 1

Letter, Moses Myers, Montreal, Canada to Isaac Moses, New York, New York, 1784 August 30

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 66
Identifier: id238988
Scope and Contents

Moses arrived in Montreal on the 29th after nine days travel. He is reluctant to go on to see his parents. Mother is ill. Will try to get them back to the US by sea. He wishes he could hear from Myer. William Campbell was a fraud. Tell Levy that McTavish is in Detroit.

Dates: 1784 August 30
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Myers Papers (II) / Series 1: Correspondence / Box 1 / Moses Myers to C.F. Mercer and Isaac Moses

Letter, Moses Myers, Norfolk, Virginia to The Honorable Charles Fenton Mercer, Washington, D.C., 1830 December 24

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 66
Identifier: id238989
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents

Moses asks Mercer to support the enclosed petition restoring commissions witheld on customs bonds. Moses' removal was based on his supposed opposition to Jackson. Moses says he was "never a meddler in Politicks" particularly in his old age.

Dates: 1830 December 24
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Myers Papers (II) / Series 1: Correspondence / Box 1 / Moses Myers to C.F. Mercer and Isaac Moses