Payments to Messrs. Kennedy and Lynch for Nickajack Expedition
Document 1799Pay Messrs. Kennedy and Lynch $1500 for value received payment of Nickajack Expedition on account of defensive protection estimate.
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Exchange for 1500 $
Sir
After ten days sight of this my Second bill of exchange, First of the tenor and date unpaid, pay Messrs Kennedy & Lynch or their order, one thousand five hundred Dollars, it being for Value received of them in Specie and is to be appropriated for the payment of the Nickapack expedition or on account of the Defensive protection estimate, for which [undecipherable] accountable as per advise of the same —
I am Sir
Knoxville State of Tennessee Your Hum. Servant
The honorable, January 1799
James Mc Henry David Henley
Secretary of War Agt War
Philadelphia
[presented Jan.y 25. 1799]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Pay Messrs. Kennedy and Lynch $1500 for value received payment of Nickajack Expedition on account of defensive protection estimate.
Date
01/01/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Knoxville
Document number
1799010140001
Page start
1
Notable persons
James McHenry
David Henley
Mr Kennedy
Mr. Lynch
Chickamauga Indians
Governor William Blount
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Knoxville
Tennessee
Nickajack
Notable items
bill of exchange
defensive protection estimate
specie