Cleaning of Arms at West Point
Document 1786Letter book transcription of a certificate given to James Manon for cleaning 500 stands of arms at West Point
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Inclosed is an Account of Mrs Elizabeth Simms for takeing Charge of Capt Notly twelve weeks, as the Doctor says reckoning [undecipherable] toward the money by Simon — I am at a loss what to do with Capt Notly, She is Such an Offensive Person that People are unwilling to take him in Charge, this Woman informs me that She Cannot keep him Longer than the first of March, And I Cannot any that is willing to [undecipherable] for for that M— any Defend him every thing to eat and Drink — if you Should think Proper to obtain one or two [undecipherable] to be A Nurse to be be little be better than Money And may in Damn for as Respects they have —
I have taken up one [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] from Capt [undecipherable] Company, he Left fort [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] third [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] with Capt [undecipherable] Company removed him this day [undecipherable] — I shall deliver him his [undecipherable] Orders —
I have receiv'd a Letter this day from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] informing me that he had not Can live, recruited and [undecipherable] of them has already arrived — [undecipherable]m —
To the Honourable Major Genl [undecipherable]
Secretary of War —
West Point 23d July 1786 —
Agreeable to Contract made [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] with Mr James Munroe —
I Certify that the Said James Munroe has Claimed five hundred Pounds of [undecipherable] for the United States at Eighteen Ninety fourths of a Dollars Buck, And is entitled to Receive Thirty Seven [undecipherable] Shillings for the Same of the War Office in New York, In [undecipherable] as this Certificate is Respected what gives him [undecipherable] Makes up the Number of [undecipherable] thousand he has Claimed — [undecipherable]riffs
To the Honorable Major Genl [undecipherable]
Secretary of War at New York —
Type
Letterbook Copy
Description
Letter book transcription of a certificate given to James Manon for cleaning 500 stands of arms at West Point
Date
02/28/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Collection
Document number
1786022840055
Page start
24
Notable persons
Henry Knox
William Price
James Manon
United States
Secretary at War
Major General Knox
Notable locations
West Point
war Office
New York
Notable items
contract
arms
dollars
pounds
shillings
certificate
