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Title	McDowell family papers, 1857-1863
Creator	unknown
Date Original	1857/1863
Description	Includes war letters about 7th Iowa Infantry, Company H.
Topical Subject (LCTGM)	Soldiers War
Topical Subject (LCSH)	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Personal Name Subject	McDowell family
Corporate Name Subject	United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 7th (1861-1865)
Geographic Subject	United States
Chronological Subject	1850-1860 1860-1870
Type (DCMIType)	Text
Type (AAT)	Correspondence
Type (IMT)	jpeg
Digital Collection	Civil War Diaries and Letters
Contributing Institution	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Archival Collection	Civil War Collection
Collection Identifier	MsC906
Collection Guide	http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/msc/ToMsC950/MsC906/CivilWarCollection.html
Box Number	2
Rights Management	Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information	Contact the Special Collections Dept. at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/contact/index.
Digitization Specifications	Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 Scanner at 600 ppi, 24-bit color. Master image available in tiff format.
File Name	index.cpd

Title	01_1857-08-25-Page 01
File Name	31858055129781_01_1857-08-25-Page 01.jpg
Full Text	Whereas I, Matthew McDowell of Washington, Washington Co., Iowa, hold a certain Draft [never?] drawn by J.R Dick of [Meadville?] on John Thompson [No 2 Yale?] Street [New York?] for one hundred and thirty Dollars Dated July 11th 1857 and whereas Said draft was not presented for payment until after the failure of Said Thompson on the 25th of August of the Said Year, by which failure I have been prevented from collecting Said draft, now therefore this is to authorize said J R Dick to [claim?] from said John Thompson whatever [dividend?] I may be entitled to under the assignment made by said Thompson for the benefit of his creditors, and in case said assignment shall be [lifted?] by said Thompson I authorize said J R Dick to [apportion?] me (to the amount of my debt) to the proposition made by said John Thompson to the meeting of a portion of his creditors held at the Astor House in New York on the 16th and 17th of March 1858 which said proposition was in substance as between [the?] said Thompson to give

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