Requests Payment for Captain Edward Butler for Amos Birch, Cherokee Boundary
Document 1799Requests payment for Captain Edward Butler for Amos Bird to pay commissioners for running the Cherokee line based on the Treaty of Tellico.
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Knoxville August 24th 1799
Sir,
I have drawn this day in favor of Captain Edward Butler for five hundred Dollars, Payable to him or Order After ten days Sight, for which Specie has been Received of Amos Bird, and has been Appropriated as express in the Bill in paying the expences for the Commissioners running the Cherokee line, as by the Treaty of Tellico in 1798, and having passed the Amount to the Credit of the Treasurer, request due Attention to the Bill.
I am very Respectfully
Your Humble Sert
David Henley
Agent of War
The Honorable
James McHenry
Secretary of War
Type
Letterbook
Description
Requests payment for Captain Edward Butler for Amos Bird to pay commissioners for running the Cherokee line based on the Treaty of Tellico.
Date
08/24/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Knoxville
Collection
Document number
1799082440401
Page start
1
Notable persons
James McHenry
David Henley
Edward Butler
Amos Bird
Cherokees
Treasurer
agent of war
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Knoxville
Tellico
Tennessee
Notable items
specie
bill
Treaty of Tellico 1798