Request for Advanced Salary
Document 1796Request for warrant to be issued to Anthony Foster (of this territory) to receive Henley's pay as agent of War Department.
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[Docket: Ers. [undecipherable] / Recpt of advance / for money advanced / to David Henley / 1000 Dols / 1 March [undecipherable]]
Sir/
You will please to issue a Warrant in favor of Anthony Foster of this Territory for a thousand dollars in advance towards my Salary as Agent to the War Department, having received that sum of him for my use.
Harpersville — I am Respectfully
12th February 1796 — Sir Your Obedt Servt
[Advance 1000—
to be c° to Da[undecipherable] the honorable
Early.] David Henley
Timothy Pickering
Secretary at War
Philadelphia
Receiv'd March 1. 1796 of Wm Simmons Accountant a Warrant N° 1002 for One Thousand dollars to reimburse me so much advanced to David Henley on account of his Salary as Agent for the War Department in the South Western Territory. for which from the said David Henley is to be accountable
D°. 1000 A Foster
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Request for warrant to be issued to Anthony Foster (of this territory) to receive Henley's pay as agent of War Department.
Date
02/04/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Knoxville
Document number
1796020440001
Page start
1
Note
This document is a draft of a payorder from Henley to Pickering.
Notable persons
Timothy Pickering
David Henley
Anthony Foster
agent
Secretary at War
William Simmons
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Knoxville
territory
War Department
South Western Territory
Notable items
salary
advance
warrant

