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payment of the $ 4 , 6 0 0 loaned to you in March 1 8 0 9 , and for the n e c e s sary authority and information to enable him to enforce payment of t h e debt due to the owners of the brig D e l a w a r e ' s cargo. Your most obedient servant, ROBERT & JOHN OLIVER. Mr. D U N C A N MCINTOSH, AUX
Cayes.
BALTIMORE, November
2 7 , 1823.
On presenting the original letter, (of which the above is a true c o p y , ) to Duncan Mcintosh, in A u x Cayes, during t h e month of August, 1818, he, the said Mcintosh, delivered to m e , as agent of Robert & John Oliver, the joint obligation of the above-named Bouregard, Bourdett, and Dejoye, for the sum of $22,664, which obligation, as expressed on the face of it, was given for balance of the brig Delaware's cargo by them purchased, and which sum being yet unliquidated, would, at the present date, with the interest usually charged in commercial countries, amount to about $48,000. T h a t document, with the others received from said Mcintosh on t h e same subject, I subsequently, and in the same year, laid before the p r e sent President of Hayti at Port-au-Prince, and, in my memorial on the oc casion, prayed that his Excellency would issue a peremptory order for t h e purpose of compelling payment. T h i s , however, he declined doing, b u t informed me through P . Palm, a partner of the house of William D o r a n & C o . of Port-au-Prince, and who accompanied me as interpreter, that h e (the P r e s i d e n t ) was going to A u x Cayes In a few days, when he would see General Bouregard and investigate the matter, so as to have justice done to the claimants. On this assurance being given, I forwarded all the papers touching t h e claim to A u x Cayes, w h e r e President Boyer soon after arrived, and r e mained for some time ; but the subject not being then brought before him, and the time for my return to the United States approaching, I e m powered William Gibson, resident merchant of A u x Cayes, to make the r e covery, as will more fully appear by the accompanying document s u b scribed to by that individual. GEORGE GREER.
U N I T E D S T A T E S OF AMERICA. S T A T E OF M A R Y L A N D , to wil :
I, John Gill, notary public by letters patent, under the great seal of the State of Maryland, commissioned and duly qualified, residing in t h e city of Baltimore in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify, attest, a n d make known, that, on the day of the date hereof, before me personally a p peared George G r e e r , of this city, merchant, and made oath on the H o l y Evangels of Almighty God that the several matters and things set forth in the preceding document, at foot whereof he has signed his name, are just and true as stated, of which an act having been of me requested, I h a v e