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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Account of the reimbursement to John Collet for expenditures at Fort Johnston
North Carolina. General Assembly
March 1774
Volume 09, Pages 957-958

[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]
Expenditures at Fort Johnston allowed by the Assembly at March Session 1774.

The Public of North Carolina

To John Collet
Dr
£ s. d.
To a Schooner purchased to transport Soldiers enlisted for the service of the province from New York to Fort Johnston and for the use of the said Fort
175
To the expence of repairing the damages said Schooner received in her passage from New York per Bill
95
To Provisions laid in for the use of the Soldiers per Bill
63
10
To Wages of the Master & men to navigate sd Schooner
36
10
To 25 steel rammers slings for 25 cartouch boxes and for repairing the said Boxes per Bill
15
16
To 160lbs Musket powder, @ 2s. 6d. per Bill
20
To 400lbs ditto purchased in New York per Bill
30
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To 1 Jack, 1 Fife, and 6 drum heads for the use of the Fort
12
10
To hire of a Boat & hands for removing some Cannon from Wilmington to the Fort
9
10
To Doctor Farquas's Bill for medicines & attendance on the Soldiers of the Garrison
21
3
4
To Cloathing for 25 Soldiers, @ £6 each
150
£628
19
4
306
10
0
John Collet
£322
9
4