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Blount, William, 1749-1800 [Order to pay troops protecting the southwest frontier]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00795 Author/Creator: Blount, William, 1749-1800 Place Written: Knoxville, Tennessee Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 16 July 1795 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Issues William Rickard, paymaster pro tem for the territory south of the Ohio River, $279 for payment "of a Detachment of Mounted Infantry" in Colonel Isaac Roberts' regiment, under the command of Sergeant John Childress. Pay was for work from 11 October 1794 to 28 October 1794. A note on the front page signed by "Chas. M Clung" indicates that the order was recorded in the secretary's office on 16 July 1795. A note on the verso signed by Rickard confirms his receipt of the money. The docket identifies this as "Warrant / No. 323." With white paper territorial seal

Blount, William, 1749-1800
Rickard, William, fl. 1785-1795

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