Certification of payment; Henry Foxall and Company, for foundry moulds, flasks for casting cannon, and a boring mill prepared near Philadelphia, at request of Secretary of Treasury
Document 1800Certification of payment; $4651.75 to Henry Foxall and Company, for foundry moulds, flasks for casting cannon, and a boring mill prepared near Philadelphia, at request of Secretary of Treasury.
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Accountants Office
August 2d 1800
I certify that there is due to Henry Foxall & Company the sum of Four thousand, six hundred & fifty one dollars, seventy five Cents, being for sundry moulds & flasks for casting Cannon, & a boring mill, prepared by them at the Foundary of Cannon near Philad.a, agreeably to the request of the Secretary of the Treasury & for an allowance made for the advantages derived to the Public from the communication of the skill of the said Henry Foxall as a founder of Cannon, granted, rather as an acknowledgement of the favorable Sentiments which his liberal conduct has inspired than as an equivalent compensation: as set forth in the opinions of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War & Navy department; which sum is payable to the said Henry Foxall the acting partner of the said Firm of Henry Foxall &C. —
W.S.
Ordnance Department Dr 4651. 75
The Sec.y of War
August 2d 1800
I Certify that there is due to John Foncin the sum of [underline: Two hundred & eight dollars & 7/100], being for his compensation as Engineer appointed for the purpose of constructing Fortifications for the defence of the Town & Harbor of Baltimore for the months of June & July 1800, admitted agreeably to his appointment by the President of the United States, given at the War Office the 7 Oct: 1799 — which sum is to be transmitted to John Kilty Supervisor Baltimore to be by him paid to the said Foncin —
W.S.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $4651.75 to Henry Foxall and Company, for foundry moulds, flasks for casting cannon, and a boring mill prepared near Philadelphia, at request of Secretary of Treasury.
Date
08/02/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800080221255
Page start
222
Notable persons
Samuel Dexter
William Simmons
Henry Foxall and Company
Secretary of Treasury
accountant
Secretary of War
Oliver Wolcott Jr.
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Accountant's Office
Notable items
boring mill
foundry moulds
pay
flasks
casting cannon

