Certificate for Cleaning Arms
Document 1786Price's transcription of a certificate issued for cleaning 500 stand of arms in store at West Point
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West Point 21 March 1786
Please justify in me with Timothy Pickham the [undecipherable] having of Insurance and hereto incites me for the Amount of [undecipherable] [undecipherable].
Please give Mr James Adams on the [undecipherable] goods for housing him his Note Land of Arms which makes the Number of Two Thousand —
In my last I injoined of you if the [undecipherable] of his Men [strikethrough: could] Before the [undecipherable] or before Jones which all the parishers which was past do not has Betteen and [undecipherable] not am too whole or even Confederates Home [undecipherable] tent, and the one of New York which did jeked from the [undecipherable]. If not the the [undecipherable] I too know of the thing she was am inlighted [undecipherable] Parker as he [undecipherable] you never nothing of them I have Reggen to believe they [undecipherable] to New York set the Wind was fair and they have Listen about with them —
Yarafter
The Honorble Major General Knox
Secretary of War —
West Point 21 March 1786
Agreeable to [undecipherable] made with Mr James Mason of a copy the [undecipherable] Jones Branson was [undecipherable] Six hundred Stand of Arms for the United States at eighteen — Ninety for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and is entitled to Receive thirty Seven pounds for his [undecipherable] for the same at the War Office in New York two days after the Certificate is Presented which makes up the Number of two [undecipherable] Thousand to his [undecipherable].
Yarafter
The Honorble Major General Knox
Secretary at War —
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy, in hand of author
Description
Price's transcription of a certificate issued for cleaning 500 stand of arms in store at West Point
Date
03/31/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Collection
Document number
1786033140155
Page start
30
Notable persons
Henry Knox
William Price
Mr. James Manon
United States
War Office
Secretary at War
Notable locations
West Point
War Office
New York
Notable items
contract
cleaned
stand of arms
pounds
shillings
certificate

