Receipt book (Accession 54500), 1781-1782.

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Extent: 1 v.

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Receipt book, 1781 May 2-1782 Dec 25, in chronological order. Many of the receipts are for payments for carrying letters and dispatches, express riding, collecting stray horses, hiring wagons for transporting supplies and wages. Wages include, but are not limited to those for apprentices, articifers, builders at Point of Fork, conducting the printing apparatus to Staunton, the keeper of the hospital for lunatics (John Galt), a sailor on board the Revenge William Bailey, a skipper of the boat Betsy, store keeper, and for making boxes for holding the papers of the House of Delegates and Council, papering a room in the Governor's Palace, repairing saddles and bridles, superintending the building of boats, transporting papers and records from Staunton to Richmond, and whitewashing the Governor's Palace. including payments for wages, wagon hires, and other expenses involved in delivering supplies. Also includes receipts for forage, pasturage, rent for houses for use of the Laboratory at Wesham and for the brick house formerly occupied by Gov. Jefferson; and for the purchases of supplies such as coal, cord, corn, oats, planks, reams of paper, rope, straw, and timber. (Accession 54500).

Also included on the reverse of pages and upside are a List of certificates issued by Henry Young; a narrative for System for Regulating the Quartermaster General Department; and miscellaneous, unidentified accounts, 1822-1829.

This volume is also identified as WAR 28.

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