Bill of Exchange for Joseph Habersham for Contingent and Incidental Expenses of Government
Document 1800Henley pays $82.80 to Joseph Habersham for value received of John Crozier for contingent and incidental expenses of government
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Knoxville 8 July 1800
Sir Exchange for 82.80 $
After ten days sight of this my first Bill of Exchange, second of like tenor and Date unpaid pay Joseph Habersham Esquire or order eighty two Dollars and eighty Cents it being for value Reciev'd of John Courier Post Master at Knoxville in [undecipherable] and is to be appropriated to the contingent and incidental expens-es of Government, for which sum I held myself ac-countable, for advice of the same —
I am Sir
The honoraffe Your Obed't Serv't
Samuel Dexton [signature]
Secretary of War [undecipherable]
[presented Aug't 5. 1800]
[undecipherable] Washington
[for Joseph Habersham P.M.G.
Abraham Bradley jun.
Afsist. Postm. Gen.
[paraph]]
[Endorsement, rotated, in different hand: Knoxville [undecipherable] N: $2.40 for Eighty two dol-lars [undecipherable] Bill of Exch[ange] &c [undecipherable] for Joseph Habersham and Abraham Bradley jun Afsist. Postm. Gen. Phil:]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Henley pays $82.80 to Joseph Habersham for value received of John Crozier for contingent and incidental expenses of government
Date
07/08/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Knoxville
Document number
1800070840001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Dexter
David Henley
William Simmons
Joseph Habersham
Abraham Bradley Junior
John Crozier
postmaster
Notable locations
Washington
Knoxville
Notable items
warrant
specie
contingent and incidental expenses

