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Copy of the entries for August 17, 1797, in the waste book of accounts at Knoxville.

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1797

08

17

Knoxville

Enclosed in Hillis to Simmons, 9/13/1797. One of multiple enclosures.

Stephen Hillis

James Grant

Sevier

Colonel Hawkins

Moses White

Captain Gillespie

Samuel Cowan

Nathaniel Cowan

attorneys

Robert Houston

Captain Lewis

James Carry

James Carey

special committee of Congress

Knoxville

Philadelphia

waste book

printing

blank receipts

contingent expenses

postage

services

expenses

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Knoxville August 17^th 1797.

Sundry Accounts D^r To Cash
Paid James Grant
Office Expence
printing July 29.^th Blank receipts for Seviers expedition 18.--
D^o August 18.^th 2.--
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20.--

Contingent Expence
For Postage Col Hawkins .75
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20.75

19^th

Stephen Hillis D^r To Cash
For to pay Moses White's services in Cap.^t Gillespie's C^o from 26.^th 24 Octo^b 1793
Seviers Expedition 21.75

Stephen Hillis D^r To Cash
For to pay Saml & Nathaniel Cowan atty. for sundry persons for military services from Octo. to Decem. 1793. 471.25

Stephen Hillis D^r To Cash
For to pay Robert Houston atty to Sundry persons for services in 1793 127.75

Contingent Expence D^r To Cash
Paid Cap^t Lewis for to defray the expences of Maj. James Grant & James Cary from Knoxville to Philadelphia. Called there by a special Committee of Congress 130--