Receipt for two bassoons and four clarinets.
Document 1798Received in to the public store from Jacob Anthony to Samuel Hodgdon $114 for 2 bassoons and 4 clarinets. Hodgdon indicates he inspected instruments at the request of General Wilkinson and Quartermaster General.
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[Docket: No. 532. S / The United States to / Jacob Anthony Dr / Doll: 114. —]
The United States
Do Jacob Anthony . . . . Dr
1798
Augt 29.th For 2 Bassoons @ 25 Doll: each . . . . 50. —
" 4 Clarinets " 16 " . . . . 64. —
Dollars, 114. —
Philadelphia 29.th August 1798.
Received of Samuel Hodgdon the sum of One Hundred & fourteen Dollars, in full of the above account. Duplicate signed, Jacob Anthony
Doll: 114. —
Received into the Public Store from Jacob Anthony
2 Bassoons — @ 25 doll. ea
4 Clarinets — " 16...." for John Harris [undecipherable: probable reading D.Q.M.G.]
William Bass
Philada August 29.th 1798 —
Note — The above Instruments were made under my own immediate inspection at the request both of General Wilkinson and the Quarter Master General —
Samuel Hodgdon
Type
Document Signed
Description
Received in to the public store from Jacob Anthony to Samuel Hodgdon $114 for 2 bassoons and 4 clarinets. Hodgdon indicates he inspected instruments at the request of General Wilkinson and Quartermaster General.
Date
08/29/1798
Author
Document number
1798082990201
Page start
1
Notable persons
Jacob Anthony
Samuel Hodgdon
General Wilkinson
Quartermaster General
William Bass
John Harris
military storekeeper
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
bassoons
clarinets
music
instruments
public store

