Receipt of Jonathan Schieffelin
Document 1798Payment in full for services as agent and interpreter for Indian Department.
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[Docket, written vertically on verso:]
[undecipherable] 11 179[undecipherable]
Jonathan Schifflin
340 10/100 Dollars
Salary as Agent &
Interpreter of the Indian
Department. —
[undecipherable]
July 11
The United States Dr
To Jonathan Schifflin
To my Services as Agent & Interpreter to the
Indian Department from the 1st Augt 1797
to the 1st April 1798 is 8 Months Ds 320.
& 40 Dols
to my Subsistence during the above period
243 days at 3 rations Pr day is 729 rations 170 10/100
at 23⅓ Cents. — — — — — —
Dols 490 10/100
Cr
By Cash recd of the 2d Agt the 1st
Augt of last Yr my receipt to him
on the Warrant of the Commt in Chief } 150
being the same that was [undecipherable] at the
[undecipherable]
Ds 340 10/100
Received at Detroit July 11. 1798 of John
Wilkins Junr 2d Agt Three hundred &
forty dollars & ten Cents, in full of the above
account — Signed Duplicates. —
I. Schifflin
[See page 20[undecipherable] for 150]
[20[undecipherable] — 340. 10]
[*ought not to answer to the Treasury.]
[*has 150. if advanced him —]
[Why 3 rations —]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Payment in full for services as agent and interpreter for Indian Department.
Date
07/11/1798
Author
Document number
1798071190001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Jonathan Schieffelin
John Wilkins
interpreter
agent
Indians
Native Americans
Notable locations
Fort Washington
Indian Department
frontier
Detroit
Notable items
pay
interpreter

