Year
1697
Sender Place
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Receiver
Phineas Pemberton
Receiver Place
n.p.
Repository holding original letter
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Full Date
1697-07-02
Document Type
Transcription
Country, State, Location 1
39.952583, -75.165222
Keywords
David Lloyd, Philadelphia, Phineas Pemberton, Charles [Goss], Griffith Owen, Samuel Richardson, Quakers, Society of Friends, Social network, Health – injury
Abstract
Letter dated July 2, 1697 (June 22, 1697 Old Style) from David Lloyd to Phineas Pemberton.
Transcription
Philad [Philadelphia] 22th 4 mth [month] 1697
ffrd [friend] Phineas Pemberton
My wife telle [tell] me thou [you] has some Inclinacion [inclination]
to come to Town and wouldst [would] know wth [with] rent
I would have for part of my house I can
make thee [you] no other auswer [answer] than that thou [you]
shalle [shall] welcom [welcome] to me at any rate and if thou [you]
insiste [insist] upon more Certainty toe [to] will either come (as
S: Richardson [Samuel Richardson] has proposed) to a quantum meruit
when thou [you] sees the Conveniency or to what lay
thou [you] will only thy [your] Company I desire and
price shall not break up off Let we hear
from thee [you] as soon as thou [you] has opportunity
and I will get the house clear for thee [you]
I got G: Owen [Griffith Owen] for thy [your] neighbour [neighbor] in
the Layn [lane] too adjoyning [adjoining] to my Closet, wee [we] are
in great hurry [crossed out] the privateers who broke
prison & [and] are gone; Charles Goss was stabbed
last night by a frenchman who fled for
the murther [murder] I am in great hast [haste]
and have scarce tyme [time] to subscribe & [and]
inclose [enclose] these few nonsinsical [nonsensical] lines
Mine & [and] my wife
Love is to the
frds [friends]
Thy [your] reall [real] frd [friend]
D. Lloyd [David Lloyd]
[page 2]
David Lloyd
Philadelphia
4 mo [month] 22. 1697
to
Phineas Pemberton
[written on the left margin]
To
Phineas Pemberton
These
dd [deliver]
HSP DAMS ID
16043
Language
english
Type
article
Format
application/pdf
Collection
PRINT Migration Network: Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions
Citation
Lloyd, David, "David Lloyd, Phineas Pemberton, July 2, 1697" (1697). Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions. 76.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/printmigrationnetwork-pemberton-transcriptions/76
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