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August 2 Thursday – Sylvester Bissell, Hartford builder, wrote to Sam that “Your cows got in my garden last night and made havoc of my early corn.” Whitmore wrote on the note that he’d paid Bissell $3 “on the spot” [MTP].

Arthur H. Wright for Webster & Co. sent Sam bank balances totaling $2,071.38 [MTP].

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