[Letter from John Teackle to Charles Nicoll Bancker, June 8, 1807, Vol. 1]

George Town 8^th June 1807.

My dear Son

Your letter of 3^d Instant was on Saturday received, it inclosed a d^t on Sam^l Crippen for £91. 12. 4E from the President of the Harford Insurance Office. The day predeeding the rec^t of your's I had forwarded a Check on the Bank of deposit in New York for $297.77/100 the amount of that sum (after deducting 22 pr ct for my Commissions To Gurdon & Dan^l. Buck and C^o. of New York agreeable to their letter of request to me on that Subject. Their letter was dated a long time back, perhaps the latter part of Ap^l. and before it reached me S. Crippen was in Phil^a. on his return he deposited the money with me, which by the by was the very day I left Kegatank, so that I had to bring it here and then transmit it, without any intimation that it was to go to another person, and having some trouble therewith I charged as above. I made the foregoing statem^t. Return the Bill, and Buck & C^o. will I presume refund, as they have rec^d. it. If the 22 pr ct is by any means to come out of Charles Chauncey, I will not have any thing which you'll please to manage.

Henrietta has informed her sister of their safe arrival here ab^t Sunset last night; I fell great obligations to M^r. W. Hall for his polite attention to hiz children. I have given him for you $150:-38 D^s of which, it seems was used of your mony for the expenses of my Children, the other part being paid out of Henriettas Money, and I also have given M^r. Hall 15 D^s for her return Expenses, so that I may be credited with $112 and Debited with the 50 D^s. you paid for Eliza's likeness (of which 25 is now due Peele¹ and which please to pay him) and also charge me with the framing of the Portraits of which Henrietta has written her sister. In your multiplicity of business you have

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forgotten to say how much you last rec^d of Mess^rs Clifford for the ballance due me, they have never written to me since I sent them the Brandy. I wish to know because of seeing how our accts stand and as well I know I now owe you an acct of Hetty some things perhaps for Eliza and The stone for my dear Henry which I have sufficient occation to know, you don't think of, yet it is proper I should. I am desirous to go to [illegible] former residence before the heat of summer but am retarded by the non arrival of my furniture. It has not yet appeared and we suffer inconvenience without it, I trust it will soon arrive as the wind has again become fair.

Your letter as explained Litt^ns Amount is truly astonishing and to me as unaccountable, as it it is painfull to contemplate. I cannot say any thing thereon more than I have, I have only this consolation that the blame should only attach to himself, I could not have supposed he owed all the World half or a Quarter of that Sum. I thought he owed me more than any one else, I am mortified beyond measure and increasedly so, that it should effect you, but I can't help myself, I must suffer it.

I do my dear Charles accept your writing to me, as it properly should be for I am sensible of your goodness and everyway affection. Your mother is I think in better health, and unites with me in love to you, your Sarah, and Children. I sincer[ely] hope to see you all here this summer and Henrietta thinks we may calculate on it, affectionately

Your father

John Teackle