Receipt for Pay as an Interpreter
Document 1795Receipt for $20 paid for work as an interpreter at Vincennes.
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The United States
To Richard Cravatt Dr
1790
September 1 } To my Services as an Interpreter to the Indians at the Post of Fort McHenry Walnut Hills from this date until September 22. 1790 at 30 Dollars ℗ Month As ℗ Contract with the Major commanding Officer } Dolls. Cents
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The above Cravatt was employed by me for the service & at the rate above stated, the Q. Master will therefore be pleased to discharge his Account —
[undecipherable] Kersey Major
To be paid — 8th Regt.
Jap[undecipherable]son
Received, Oct. 4th 1790 from John Wilkins, Junr. Esqr. Quarter Master General. twenty two Dollars — in full for my Services as Interpreter to the Indians in the neighbourhood of Fort McHenry from the first to the twenty-Second Day of September 1790 inclusive
Signed Duplicates
In presence of his
A [undecipherable] Walls W Add Richard R Cravatt
mark
Commandant McHenry
Description
Receipt for $20 paid for work as an interpreter at Vincennes.
Date
04/10/1795
Author
Document number
1795041079510
Notable persons
Caleb Swan
Joseph Lemotte
interpreter
Major General Anthony Wayne
Notable locations
Post Vincennes
Notable items
warrant
pay
duplicate receipts

