Bill of Exchange for Gideon Dennison
Document 1799Order to pay Dennison $1000 for payment for the Nickajack expedition.
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Allentown [undecipherable] 1799
Sir,
After ten days sight of this my [first?] bill of Exchange, Pay to [undecipherable] or order [undecipherable] one thousand [undecipherable] dollars [undecipherable] doing [undecipherable] in value received, and charge the same to [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]. The [delayed?] expiration, [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for
[undecipherable] Sir
Your [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
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Secretary [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[Annotation in margin: Approved [undecipherable] 8, 1799]
[Endorsements on reverse:]
Pay the within to the order of David W. Scott value in acc[ount] G. Benson
David M'Con[undecipherable]
Rec'd [undecipherable] Scott
Received February 19, 1799 of William Simmons acc't warrant No 3715 for One thousand Dollars in full for the within Bill —
Drs 1000
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Description
Order to pay Dennison $1000 for payment for the Nickajack expedition.
Date
01/02/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Knoxville
Document number
1799010240002
Notable persons
James McHenry
David Henley
Gideon Dennison
David Wilson Scott
William Simmons
Charles Shoemaker
Notable locations
Knoxville
Philadelphia
Tennessee
Notable items
bill of exchange
specie
payment
warrant


