Discussion of Payment for Arms Cleaning Contractors
Document 1786Discusses payment of men contracted to clean arms at West Point for services rendered.
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Workers & have now been doing — there was but little & [undecipherable] duty in our [undecipherable] having had our Capt [undecipherable] commanded — & I have forwarded one to Capt [undecipherable] about their situation in the [undecipherable] and they talk about relieving [undecipherable] hand but [undecipherable] was left after [supply?]ing the books for the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — as there is now how to up with your [undecipherable] I will get [undecipherable] some of the [undecipherable] does now laid —
I have furnished Mr [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Serrels to [undecipherable] his men and taken his Receipt —
I am for your humt —
The Honorable Brigr. Gen. [undecipherable]
Secretary at War —
West Point 1st May 1786
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Mr [undecipherable] has been to [undecipherable] and [undecipherable], and well served us with an account of his Proceedings — he was gone five days upon the business
I have sent by Mr [undecipherable] an account of Mr [undecipherable] for taking care of Capt [undecipherable]
the Honorable [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] at War — I am for you —
West Point 22 May 1786
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Agreeable to Contract made with Mr [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] the said mess mason has Claim [undecipherable] Hundred [undecipherable] into the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of a Dollar each and is entitled to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] building [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] after a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] in five days after this [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] which makes [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which he has [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] —
The Honorable Brigr. Gen. [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] at War —
Type
Letterbook
Description
Discusses payment of men contracted to clean arms at West Point for services rendered.
Date
05/22/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Collection
Document number
1786052240055
Page start
34
Notable persons
Henry Knox
William Price
James Manon
Major General Knox
Secretary at War
Notable locations
West Point
New York
Notable items
arms cleaning
contract
certificate

