Payment & Description of Work for Hat Contractor
Document 1799Order for payment of a contractor who trimmed 30 hats for the 13th Regiment, to the amount of $8.19. A balance sheet is attached, which includes a description of the contractor's (John Bolles) work on the hats.
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[Lodowick Gallup's]
[undecipherable]
[$8—19]
[No 9]
The United States
To Lodowick Gallup 2d Dr
1799
August 24th To Cash pd John Bolles for Triming
thirty Hats as per bill — — $8.19
Lodowick Gallup Lt
13 Regt Infty
I Certify upon honor that the above account is
Just, and that I have not Received from the United
States, Money or any Compensation in lieu thereof
for any part of the above Charge
Lodowick Gallup Lt
13 Regt Infty
Recd Amora Cantonment in the State of New Jersey
of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Col Commandg 13th Regt [undecipherable] Eight Dollars
& Nineteen Cents in full for the above amount
Lodowick Gallup Lt
13th Regt Infantry
John Bolles bill
[undecipherable]
$8 19
New London — August 24th 1799
United States To John Bolles 2d Dr
To looping & binding thirty hats @ 6 cents 3 Mills each $1.89
To furnishing and placing on thirty Black leather
Cockades with an Eagle in the Center @ twenty
One Cents each Including a white button for
the loop . . . . . . . . . 6.30
$8.19
Received Payment in full &
[undecipherable] accounts settled & [undecipherable] John Bolles 2d
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] of the
United States
Type
Document Signed
Description
Order for payment of a contractor who trimmed 30 hats for the 13th Regiment, to the amount of $8.19. A balance sheet is attached, which includes a description of the contractor's (John Bolles) work on the hats.
Date
08/24/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799082490001
Page start
1
Note
2 COLLECTIONS: one with photocopy images, one with photograph images of the same.
Notable persons
John Bolles
Lodowick Gallup
Timothy Taylor
Notable locations
New Jersey
New London
Notable items
trim
hats
cash
account
compensation
black leather cockades
eagle
white button

