Payment to Jonathan Scheifflen, Agent and Interpreter
Document 1798Payment to Jonathan Scheifflen for services as an Agent and Interpreter.
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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 p Month as p Contract with the Major Genry Commanding Officer } Dolls Cents
22 —
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 —
To be passed — [signed] Ros Kersey Major
P Regt.
Japickinson
Received, Oct. 4th 1790 from John Wilkins, Liet. Esqr. Quarter Master General. twenty-two Dollars — in full for my Services as Interpreter to the Indians in the neighborhood of fort McHenry from the first to the twenty-second Day of September 1790 inclusive
Signed Duplicates
In presence of Richard his R Cravatt mark
A [undecipherable] W [undecipherable]
Comdant & McHenry
Description
Payment to Jonathan Scheifflen for services as an Agent and Interpreter.
Date
07/11/1798
Sent from
Detroit
Document number
1798071179510
Notable persons
Jonathan Scheifflin
agent
interpreter
Indian Department
Quartermaster General
John Wilkins Jr
Treasury
Jonathan Schieffelin
Notable locations
Detroit
Notable items
subsistence
rations
cash
receipt
warrant

