Request to pay Benjamin Smith for erecting part of Fort Johnston at the mouth of Cape Fear
Document 1799Request to pay $500 to Benjamin Smith for erecting part of Fort Johnston at the mouth of Cape Fear River.
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[undecipherable: prob. Jn'o Smith's]
Pay Recspt[s] & [undecipherable] Drawn on a [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] in Accord[o] with [undecipherable: signature]
[undecipherable] dams
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Exchange [for] $500 N° 3 Wilmington 16th June 1799
At sight, [of] my first of Exchange [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] dale unpaid, [undecipherable] pay to Benjamin Smith [undecipherable]
five hundred dollars value received by Contract this day Entered
into agreeably to your instructions for erecting part of
[undecipherable] Johnston at the mouth of [undecipherable] River. —
[undecipherable: signature] Agent
[undecipherable]
To Honble James A. [undecipherable]
Secretary of the War Department
Philadelphia
Type
Document Signed
Description
Request to pay $500 to Benjamin Smith for erecting part of Fort Johnston at the mouth of Cape Fear River.
Date
06/01/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Wilmington, NC
Document number
1799060140401
Page start
1
Notable persons
James McHenry
Griffith J McRee
McRea
Rumford Dawes
Abijah Dawes
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Wilmington, NC
Cape Fear River
Fort Johnston
Notable items
first of exchange
contract
erecting