Estimate of the expense to transport bells from Carlisle to New York City

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Estimate for cleaning & stamping 1000 mus- kets & Bayonets ——-Philada, June 17 1784 9th 1000 muskets & Bayonets paid @4. £100 [£100 is underlined] Estimate of the expense of transporting 9 Bells belonging to the Churches in New York from Carlisle to this City agreeable to the order of Congress, June 19, 1786 9 Bells wt 49,,0,,0 [undecipherable, pertains to weight of bells]——-paid @7/6 £18,,7,,6 10th Estimate of the sum necessary for the payment of the undermentioned Account ————————-July 5 1784 Perkins and Nicholson for cleaning repairing & stamping One thousand Muskets and Bayonets—–paid @4 ea—£100,,, Estimate for Additional pay due sundry Soldiers for services performed at West Point, and for a balance due on Mr. Christopher Ellergy’s wood and Storage Accounts——————Jul 15 1784 6018 days work————-@[undecipherable] pday——£300,,18- Balance due on Mr Ellery’s wood and storage account——-paid 64,,12,6 [over] 364,,10,6 Estimate of the sum necessary for the payment of the undermentioned Account——–July [undecipherable–probably 21st] 1784 Perkins & Nicholson for cleaning [undecipherable] Muskets & Bayonets @[undecipherable] —£100___

Type

Letterbook

Description

From Quartermaster General's Dept. and Commissary of Military Stores Dept. Account Book. Estimate of the expense of transporting nine bells belonging to the churches in New York from Carlisle to New York by order of the Continental Congress

Date

06/19/1784

Document number

1784061990055

Page start

12

Notable persons

Congress

Notable locations

Carlisle
New York

Notable items

transporting
bells
churches
order
paid