Agreement for House for Naval Department between Hodgdon and Charles Kenley.
Document 1798States Kenly will repair house currently occupied by Tench Coxe and that Coxe will return the house in the state which he received it.
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[Agreement for the
House for an
Office.
June 1798.
Agreement for House
for Naval Department
in Phila. —
Endorsed by
President Washington]
It is agreed between Samuel Hodgdon in behalf of the Secretary of the Naval Department of the one part. And Charles J. Henley for himself on the other as follows — Vizt The said Henley tents his House in Walnut Street lately occupied by Tench Coxe, to the United States for eight hundred Dollars per Annum to commence on the eighteenth of this (June) instant and to be paid Quarterly The premises to be put into complete repair by the said Henley as far as respects the Windows and Locks on all the Doors — And the United States covenants and agrees to redeliver the House at the expiration of their occupancy in the same order as received the natural waste and wear excepted — Done at Philadelphia this twentieth Day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight —
Charles J Henley
Witness at Signing
Wm Henley
Type
Document Signed
Description
States Kenly will repair house currently occupied by Tench Coxe and that Coxe will return the house in the state which he received it.
Date
06/20/1798
Author
Collection
Document number
1798062028001
Page start
1
Note
Witnessed by William Kenly and Charles J. Kenly.
Notable persons
multiple
Tench Coxe
Charles J. Kenly
Kenley
William Kenly
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Naval Department
house
rental
Pennsylvania
Notable items
house
doors
locks

