[Voucher No. 56] Payment for purchase of lots
Document 1799Receipt for $2,293.33 paid to Elizabeth Sober by the US government for land to be used as a laboratory. The receipt is conveyed to McHenry by John Wilkins.
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N° [strikethrough: 11] /° (350)
Voucher
Purchase Money of the
Laboratory lot
2293 33/100 Dls.
Elizabeth Sober & others
[Marginal note, written vertically:] Before the accountant is a certificate certifying a document [undecipherable] to produce a letter forth [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] office — and that the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that the title [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in also Mr [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable: filing notation]
Philadelphia July 6th 1799 Received from John Milkins Jr Dr Mr [undecipherable] per James Miller Agent Two thousand two hundred and ninety three dollars and thirty three cents in full for a Lot of Ground being the same which we have conveyed this day to James McHenry Esqr Secy of War for the use of the United States, on which a Laboratory &c is to be erected.
Dolls 2293 33/100
Witness
Joseph h. [undecipherable]
[signed duplicate receipts of the above and also a receipt for the same Sum at the foot of the Deed.]
her
Elizabeth [X] Sober
Mark
Catharnie Hollinshead
Eliza S. Hollinshead
Type
Autograph Letter/Document Signed
Description
Receipt for $2,293.33 paid to Elizabeth Sober by the US government for land to be used as a laboratory. The receipt is conveyed to McHenry by John Wilkins.
Date
07/06/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799070640001
Notable persons
James McHenry, Secretary of War
John Wilkins, Jr., Quartermaster General
James Miller
United States
Joseph Elliot
Elizabeth Sober
Catherine Hollinshead
Eliza L. Hollinshead
Notable locations
Philadelphia
land
lot
laboratory
Notable items
lot of ground
laboratory
duplicate receipts
foot of the deed
two thousand two hundred and ninety three dollars and thirty three cents


