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Document 1797Copy of the entries for August 19, 1797, in the waste book of accounts at Knoxville.
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Knoxville August 17.th 1797.
Sundry Accounts Dr To Cash
Paid James Grant
Office Expence
Printing July 29.th Blank
receipts for Lewis's expedition . . . 18. —
Do August 18.th — — — — — 2. —
20. —
Contingent Expence
For Postage Colo Hawkins . . —75 20 75
18.th
Stephen Hillis Dr To Cash
For to pay Moses White's services in Cap.t
Gillespie's Co from 26.th Sept.r 24 Octo.r 1793
Lewis's Expedition . . . . . 21 75
Stephen Hillis Dr To Cash
For to pay Sam.d & Nathaniel Cowan
Atty for sundry persons for military
services from Octo.r to Decem.r 1793. 471 25
Stephen Hillis Dr To Cash
For to pay Robert Houston Atty to sundry
persons for services in 1793 — — — — 127 75
Contingent Expence Dr To Cash
Paid Cap.t Lewis for to defray the expences of Maj.
James Grant & James Carey from Knoxville to
Philadelphia (after there by a special Committee of
Congress . . . . . . . . . . 130 —
Type
Copy of document
Description
Copy of the entries for August 19, 1797, in the waste book of accounts at Knoxville.
Date
08/19/1797
Sent from
Knoxville
Document number
1797081970021
Note
Enclosed in Hillis to Simmons, 9/13/1797. One of multiple enclosures.
Notable persons
Stephen Hillis
Joseph brown
Colonel Butler
William Hall
Captain Van Rensselaer
Stephen Haines
Captain Thomas Lewis
Mrs. Chisholm
Major Lewis
James Carey
George Strother
Notable locations
Knoxville
Knox
Notable items
waste book
tar
forage
horses
boarding
subsistence


