Submission of Remaining Unspent Funds Upon Retirement as Purveyor
Document 1800Submits to the War Department Accountant's Office the balance of the U.S. funds in his possession, now that his term as provisional Purveyor of Public Supplies has ended.
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Purveyor Department
Mr [undecipherable] [undecipherable] cMay 22 1800
Accountant War Department
Sir.
I have the honour herewith to transmit my account current with the United States Balance in my hands being Fourteen thousand fine hundred fourteen Dollars [undecipherable]/100 which lies in Bank and payable on demand.
If you find the said [undecipherable: probable reading "right"] free from Error you will please to signify it to me & I stand ready to pay over the Balance above mentioned. [undecipherable]
Mr John Harris Purveyor Department
Keeper of Military Stores May 19 - 1800
Sir Please to deliver to Mr Francis Brown the following Articles taking his Receipt for the[m]
Sixteen hundred & eighty yards of Kersy
five hundred & Sixty eight of Diaper Bais
Eight hundred & eighty five yds & nine quarters of Oznaburgs
24 lb White \
24 H Blue } Sixty Pounds of Thread
12 H white Brown /
your Obedient
Jos Williams
provisional Purveyor
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Submits to the War Department Accountant's Office the balance of the U.S. funds in his possession, now that his term as provisional Purveyor of Public Supplies has ended.
Date
05/22/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Purveyor's Department
Repository
Collection
Document number
1800052240001
Page start
1
Note
The collection duplicates itself.
Notable persons
William Simmons
Jonathan Williams
accountant
Notable locations
Purveyor's Department
Notable items
account current
error
balance