Transcription of Spencer McOmber Receipt Kalamazoo College Archives ----- (Front) $85 For value received, I promise to pay the Baptist Convention of the State of Michigan or Bearer the sum of Eighty Five Dollars by the first day of April, 1848 on demand after the first day of August 1847 with (use?) in the work of a diligent and competent Joiner, at one & 25/100 Dollars per diem, furnishing his board. The work shall be commenced within twenty days, after being notified, & continued by the day on the job at the option of the Branch. Kalamazoo April 1st 1846 Witnessed by T. W. Merrill Spencer McOmber ----- (Back) McOmbers Note $85 The payment of Sixty Dollars of the within note is to be deferred till the First of Nombember next (?) at S. McOmber's option. T. W. Merrill, Agent. Received thirty dollars on the within July 18, 1848.