Estimate of Expenditures on Account of Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts
Document 1800Joseph Williams, paymaster and storekeeper at Springfield Armory Massachusetts provides estimate of expenditures. Includes payroll, supply of iron and steel, and incidental and contingent expenses, totaling $3900.
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Estimate for
Augt 1800.
[Received Augt 23d 1800 of William Simmons Accountant a Warrant No 5205 for Three Thousand nine hundred Dollars To be transmd by me to Saml. Hodgdon Superintendent of military Stores at Philada Agent for the within Jos: Williams & being in full for the within Estimate —
Drs 3900 — [undecipherable] Conphs]
Estimate of expenditures on account of the Armory of the United States at Springfield in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from Augt 1st 1800 to Sept 1st 1800
Probable Amot of Pay Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2300. . . .
Further supply of Iron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800. . . .
" " Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500. . . .
Incidental & Contingent expenses . . . . . . . . 300. . . .
$3000
Honble Secretary of War,
Joseph Williams
Paymaster & Stuble & Kuhn
Wart No 5205.
Philadelphia 1st September 1800. Received of Samuel Meredith, Esqr Treasurer of the United States the sum of Three thousand Nine hundred Dollars on account of Colonel Joseph Williams, Paymaster and Store Keeper at the post of Springfield — received at the Bank of the United States —
Dollars 3,900 Samuel Hodgdon
Type
Document Signed
Description
Joseph Williams, paymaster and storekeeper at Springfield Armory Massachusetts provides estimate of expenditures. Includes payroll, supply of iron and steel, and incidental and contingent expenses, totaling $3900.
Date
08/1800
Author
Recipient
Document number
1800089940001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Samuel Dexter
Joseph Williams
William Simmons
accountant
Samuel Hodgdon
Doughty
armorer
Samuel Meredith
Treasurer of the United States
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Springfield
Massachusetts
Notable items
estimate
warrant
military stores
armory
pay roll
iron
steel
incidental and contingent expenses

