Estimate of Expenditures at Harpers Ferry for August 1800.
Document 1800Denotes monetary amounts spent on canal, employment, and warrants.
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[Docket:]
Estimate of Expenditures
at Harpers Ferry for
August 1800
Amt Drs 3000.—
Received Sep.t 30 1800
of William Simmons
Accountant a Warrant No.
5216 issued by the Secy of War
for Three thousand dollars, on
account of the Armourers employed
expenditures on the Canal, &c at
Harpers Ferry for August 1800,
for which sum the within
Saml Annin to be accountable.
Drs 3000.— Joseph Perkin's
Estimate of Expenditures at Harpers fery for the Month of
August 1800—
Probable amount of pay to the Armourers employed
at Factory for August 1800 $1000
Carpenters, Milledrights & Mans 650
Expenditures on the Canal & Dam 1050
Raw materials Purchased — 300
$3000
Mr. Annin authorised Mr. Perkin
in a Letter to the Secy of War
enclosing this estimate to & receive
the Warrant of the Amount.
War office [undecipherable]
3 Sep 1800.
[No 5210 noted in left margin]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Denotes monetary amounts spent on canal, employment, and warrants.
Date
09/03/1800
Author
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1800090315101
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Newman
armourers
carpenter
William Simmons
Samuel Annin
Joseph Perkin
carpenters
mill wrights
Notable locations
War Office
canal
Harper's Ferry
Virginia
Notable items
estimate of expenses
warrant
canal
pay
factor
expenditures
materials

