Certification of payments; John Hills, Temporary Engineer and Draughtsman
Document 1799Certification of payments; John Hills, Temporary Engineer and Draughtsman, for work on fortifications and harbors, for sundry plans, surveys, estimates made by Captain Pitts for a block house, and for other obstructions to navigation at Sandy Hook Bay, Poulushook, [Paulus Hook] and narrows near New York. For expenses to and from New York and Philadelphia, including stationary.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; John Hills, Temporary Engineer and Draughtsman, for work on fortifications and harbors, for sundry plans, surveys, estimates made by Captain Pitts for a block house, and for other obstructions to navigation at Sandy Hook Bay, Poulushook, [Paulus Hook] and narrows near New York. For expenses to and from New York and Philadelphia, including stationary.
Date
01/12/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1799011221152
Page start
315
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Ebenezer Stevens
Captain Pitts
Treasurer
Temporary Engineer
Draughtsman
Agent War Department
Treasurer
John Hills
War Department Accountant
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Paulus Hook
New York
New Jersey
Sandy Hook Bay
Poulushook, [Paulus Hook]
narrows near New York
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Accountant's Office
War Department
Notable items
block house
surveys
estimates
navigation
fortifications
harbors
fortification of harbors
pay
block house
plans
obstructions to navigation
expenses
stationary