Adams Family Correspondence, volume 13
Schedule of papers and securities left in the hands of Dr: Thomas Welsh, by J. Q. Adams, and which are to be delivered
to Thomas B. Adams.
1. Deed in fee of an House in Court street, Boston.
2. Lease of said house for 5 years from October 24. 1794, to Rebecca Whitwell, widow.2
3. Deed of Land, in Salem; State of Vermont.
*4. Six receipts of Cashier of Trustees to Boston Theatre for £33:6.8. each.
5. Certificate of 200 Dollars stock in the Union Bank.3
6 Two orders on T. Crafts—County treasurer, for £10. and for £7:3:6.4
2487. Five Shares in Middlesex Canal
*8. Ticket. Harvard College Lottery. Class 1. N. 10,124.5
*9. Cash. 100. Dollars.
Of these Doctor Welsh signed a receipt. He must now further have in his hands:
10. 4 Tickets, in the 4th: Class of the
College Lottery—No: 20,506.7.8.9.
11. A note of hand from John P. Ripley. for.6
*12. Deed of my share in the Boston Theatre.
13. Various receipts for monies paid by him on my account.
But With regard to my share in the Boston Theatre, the principal caution will be to prevent it [brin]ging any [. . . .] [expe]nses. I consider the property as lost.
The ticket for the first class of the Lottery has been accounted for: and also the 100 Dollars cash.
The rent upon the house and the dividends upon the bank stock, are accounted for up to April 1798 inclusive
Upon the shares on the Middlesex canal, 700 Dollars had been paid in July 1798. The receipts of course will appear.
And in July 1798 Doctor Welsh’s account acknowledged a balance of 293 Dollars 28 ½ Cents, cash in his hands.
The orders on the County treasurer, do not appear to have been paid.
The following statements in the account of Charles Adams, accompanying his letter of 7. September 1796. (being the latest account rendered by him) will shew what he now is accountable for.7
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“Septr: 2. 1795. |
My draft on J. Q. Adams for two thousand dollars. The money received by me and
placed at interest for him at 7. per Cent per Ann: payable annually, secured by a bond and mortgage dated 10th: Septr: 1795. The principal
to be paid on a demand of sixty days. |
} | 2000 |
| June 24. 1796. | Balance of my draft on J. Q. Adams. | 1939:11 | |
| Employed in the following manner. | |||
| Nine hundred thirty-nine dollars secured by bond, dated June 30 1796 interest payable quarterly 7. per Cent per Ann. principal to be paid on demand. | 939:11 | ||
| 249 | |||
E Augt: 9. 1796. |
One thousand dollars on two notes for five hundred each. with two endorsers three months and an half at two and an half per Cent per month Interest paid on advance. | } | 1000. |
| ” | Balance in your favour for which I am accountable. | 3939:11. | |
| ” | Interest received by me on employment marked E | 75.” |
It appears by account of Doctor Welsh, that on the 17th: of October 1796 he received from Charles Adams 219
dollars, in my behalf. This must have been the 75 dollars, last above-mentioned. The
interest on the 2000 dollars due 10. Septr: 1796 and the
quarters interest due on the 939 dollars, on the 30th: of
Septr: 1796.— For all the interest accrued upon all the
sums, since those dates respectively, Charles Adams remains accountable.