[Endorsement written on exterior of folded document:] [undecipherable] of Rec p. 2292 — 3 Boatmen — 13 7/ Dollars 2. March 1799 No. 2292 We the Subscribers do agree and Obligate our selves to perform the duty of boatmen in the Quarter Masters Department, and to be Subjects to the orders of Cap^t Joseph Collins who has command of the boats prepared for Madam Wilkinsons Accomodation Destined to Natchez for which we are to receive pay at the rate of fifteen Dollars p month and one and an half Ration p day until the boats arrive at Natchez also to be allowed forty days pay & Subsistance at that rate to return to this place and the Necessary transportation for our possessions through the Wilderness — Signed by us at Cincinnati this 23^d day of Jan^y 1799 in presence of [signature: undecipherable] Elisha Mof[undecipherable] Andrew [undecipherable] C Thomas Hinkes James his [X] mark [undecipherable] Edward [undecipherable: Pollin?] [undecipherable] his [X] mark [undecipherable] Hugh his [X] mark [undecipherable: Wlackey?] Daw^d his [X] mark [undecipherable] Clocklin Chas. his [X] mark Yates John [undecipherable] Samuel [undecipherable] We the Subscribers do engage on the same terms and agreeably to the above articles, but is to have only Thirty days to return to this place Witness our Hands at Massac 8 Feb^y 1799 1^st James [undecipherable] Baptist his [X] mark La [undecipherable] Share Walter M[undecipherable]owrice René his [X] mark [undecipherable] Nea[undecipherable] Watt his [X] mark A. Roit [undecipherable] Samuel [undecipherable] Daw^d his [X] mark [undecipherable] Clocklin Chas. his [X] mark Yates John [undecipherable] Samuel [undecipherable] Pay Reciept Roll of Eight [undecipherable] employed in the Quarter Master Depart[ment] to Decend the River from Cincinnata to the Natchez with Publick Boats and Dischauged at N[undecipherable] the 2^d of March 1799 Names — Time paid for — Amount Elisha Mof[undecipherable] — 1 [mo.] [8] [days] — 15 — 10 [Dol.] [undecipherable] [Cts.] — [signature] — We the Subscribers do Ac- — [undecipherable: witness] Edw Collins — 1 — [8] — 15 — 10 — [signature] — knowledge to have Recd — [undecipherable] Seth Miens — 1 — [8] — 15 — 10 — [signature] — of John Wilkins Jr. Qua- — [undecipherable] Charles Yates — 1 — [8] — 15 — 10 — [signature] — rter Master Gen. the Several — [undecipherable] Sam^l Smith — 1 — [8] — 15 — 10 — [signature] — Sums Annexed to our — [undecipherable] John Har[undecipherable] — 1 — [8] — 15 — 10 — [signature] — Names — [undecipherable] Walter Mc[undecipherable] — [?] 23 — 15 — 11 — 50 — [signature] — [Head?] — Signed D[undecipherable] us — [undecipherable] Walter A. Rout — [?] 23 — 15 — [7?] — 50 — [signature] — [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Total ~ 9 — 4 — 15 — 137 [?] — One hundred and thirty [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Vauphin?] his [X] mark [undecipherable: Deracha?]