Report on Completion of Arms Cleaning Contract
Document 1786Reports the execution of James Manon's contract to clean arms at West Point, with the particulars and prices involved.
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West Point 8th Septr 1786
I wrote you on 25 August respecting [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Cloathing —
If you Should think proper to give me an
Order I Can [undecipherable] then with all the Articles [undecipherable]
[undecipherable], Shoes, Buckskin & Stockn[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Can [undecipherable] out of
Some of the Old Cloathing in [undecipherable] —
On the Night of [undecipherable] Inst. [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable]
the Connecticut recruits Departed, and [undecipherable] Night
one from the New Jersey [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] just
[undecipherable] off [undecipherable] them, and [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable]
first [undecipherable] am in hopes [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] —
I am Your most
[undecipherable] H[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Servt
the Honnoble Majr Gen Knox
Secretary at War —
Sir West Point 8 Jul 1786
Agreeable to Contract made with Mr James
Monroe, I Certify that the Said James Monroe [undecipherable]
Claim[undecipherable] two Hundred and twenty Seven Stands of Arms
for the United States at eighteen Ninety [undecipherable] of a
Dollar each and is intitled to receive the [undecipherable] &
fourteen [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] in New York in two Days after the Certificate
Presented, which makes up the Number of [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] two hundred and twenty Seven [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] —
I am Sir
[undecipherable]
The Honnoble Majr Gen Knox
Secty at War
Type
Letterbook
Description
Reports the execution of James Manon's contract to clean arms at West Point, with the particulars and prices involved.
Date
09/08/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Collection
Document number
1786090840155
Page start
40
Notable persons
Henry Knox
William Price
James Manon
Secretary at War
Notable locations
New York
West Point
Notable items
stands of arms
arms cleaning
contract

