Payment to Phillip Wheynimer for hauling provisions
Document 1798Coxswain of barge John Steel requests that Hodgdon pay to bearer Phillip Wheynimer for hauling provisions to troops at Boring Mill at Schuylkill. Note below says troops hauling cannon to Boring Mill on Shuylkill River.
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Philadelphia 27th Aug.t 1798
Received in full for the within services, One Dollar
Doll: 1. Philip Wineman
[address panel] Doll: 1. — Philip Wineman — The United States — No. [undecipherable]
Sir
Please to pay the Bearer Philip Wheynimer
Seven Shillings and Sixpence for Hawling
provisions for the troops on Duty at the
Boring mill at Schuylkill as the Contra[ct]
requir'd payment
Schuylkill August 27.th 1798 John Neil Coxswain
of the Barge
M.r Samuel Hodgdon
Philadelphia
[strikethrough: undecipherable]
Quer the D not th here seen had by the con-
tractors — and found to [undecipherable]
from th: account
Note — The above Men are employed in getting the Heavy Cannon from the [undecipherable] opposite the City to the Boring mill on
Schuylkill
Samuel Hodgdon
Type
Document Signed
Description
Coxswain of barge John Steel requests that Hodgdon pay to bearer Phillip Wheynimer for hauling provisions to troops at Boring Mill at Schuylkill. Note below says troops hauling cannon to Boring Mill on Shuylkill River.
Date
08/27/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Schuykill
Document number
1798082780101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Hodgdon
John Steele
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Schuykill
Pennsylvania
Notable items
pay
provision
troops
duty
boring mill
payment

