Repairs after 1760 Salem fire
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Recipient
Date Written
April 28, 1760
Timothy Lindall was 82 years old when this was written.
The recipient, John Osborne, was 43 when it was received.
Timothy Lindall died 5 months, 27 days after writing this.
It was written 263 years, 5 months, 5 days ago.
It was a Monday.
Honorable Gentlemen,
I intended to have rebuilt my warehouse near Oliver Dock the wooden work of which was consumed by the late dreadful fire. [?] gave my grandson, John Borland, orders about it, who applied [?] honor for your direction, who told him he must build the front brick, & being willing to pay due regard to your directions [?] with the workmen about it, masons and carpenters who told him that in as much as there was no light but in the front except a small one in the chamber, it was not practicable to build the front of said warehouse with brick, there must be in the lower room two large doors & [?] of shop windows, & so many windows in the chamber to make light [?] for it the house being about twenty-five foot wide & so necessary [?] requiring more light, that the piers of the brick work would be so tender they would not stand, & without sufficient light it would not lett, that I intreat your [?] he may build the front with wood as formerly, there being no prospect of any building on the southside of it. And I think it not advisable to advance a sum of money to build except it will be convenient to lett, to answer my expense & to accommodate one or more of the inhabitants of Boston & pay somewhat toward, the Publick tax.
I am Honorable Gentlemen,
Your humble servant,
Timothy Lindall
Salem April 28th 1760
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