Letter from Merchant John F. Kennedy to Marcia Gray, 27 August 1805

Abstract

The situation put Kennedy in a financial bind, who writes on August 27, 1805 that “the loss of the Jane at a moment when I required an immense sum of money to meet my engagements threw me into such difficulty that to make my payments required all my energy and industry to get money without borrowing or going into the disreputable schemes of slavers”.