Provincial Commissioners: Orders for Payment [November 23–December 29, 1756]

Provincial Commissioners: Orders for Payment

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After the return of the provincial commissioners from the Easton Indian conference they resumed their regular sessions and began again to issue orders for money payments on November 23. By December 28 the end of their available funds was once more in sight and on that day and the next they authorized a few large payments, including one which turned over to Charles Norris the remaining balance. Although commissioners under later acts issued hundreds of orders for payments, Franklin dropped from the group because of his impending journey to England as agent for the Assembly, and he did not resume this sort of activity until after his return to Philadelphia in 1762. The seventy-four orders issued during the last five weeks of his responsibility in 1756 are listed below in the same form as those signed earlier (see above, VI, 392–5). The orders which he did not sign are indicated by an asterisk (*).

Date	Payee	Purpose	Amount
November			£	s.	d.
23	William Bramson	Hand grenades, grape shot, cannon balls	48	0	3
23	James Hamilton	Cash advanced to Edward Croston	150	0	0
23	John Hughes	Payment to John Van Etten, Sept. 24	150	0	0
23*	Capt. Frederick Smith	Pay for self and co. per Sgt. Peter Shaver	150	0	0
24*	Jacob Cantzon	Medicines and attendance on soldiers at Ft. Hunter	9	1	0
24*	Stephen Carpenter	Board, shoes, stockings for 2 Indian boys	17	9	0

24*	Nathaniel Grubb	Maintenance of French Neutrals, Chester Co.	5	14	2½
24*	Abraham Kintzey	Part pay, hiring team to province	75	0	0
24*	Jesse Maris	Maintenance of French Neutrals, Springfield, Chester Co.	11	12	6½
24*	Samuel Neave	Goods for Easton Indian treaty	404	6	11½
24*	Thomas Nuzen [?]	Maintenance of French Neutrals, Ridley and Providence Twps., Chester Co.	3	4	11
24*	Christopher Sower, Jr.	Maintenance of French Neutrals, Germantown	20	7	4
24*	Francis Smedley	Maintenance of French Neutrals, Wells and Goshen Twps., Chester Co.	12	4	6¼
24*	Samuel Smith	Executor of William Grant: tin kettles, flints, nails, certified justly due	10	19	11
24*	Thomas Wharton	2 casks nails, for use at Ft. at Shamokin	13	8	0
26	Capt. Christian Busse	Part pay of co.	400	0	0
26	William Edmonds	Brethren’s account for maintaining Indians	144	15	5¼
26	Timothy Horsfield	Sundries for Indians and Geo. Claus’s account	21	4	0
26	Samuel Neave	For order of John Harris, Oct. 24	20	0	0
27*	Jeremiah Warder	Sundries and victualling Wetterhold’s co.	409	13	3
29*	Joseph Armstrong	Keeping guard, Hamilton Twp., Cumberland Co.	74	16	0
29*	Dr. William Chancellor	Medicine for forces in Carlisle	4	9	0
29*	Doughty Jones	Lodging, dieting and nursing Capt. Newcastle and wife	8	1	6
29*	Jacob Levan	Provisions for Capt. Reynolds’s co.	203	8	9
29*	Jacob Orndt	Pay for self and co. to Dec. 4	801	1	6
29*	John Pumpshire	Service as Indian interpreter	20	0	0
29*	Capt. George Reynolds	Pay for self and co. to Dec. 1	722	7	0
29*	Capt. Edward Ward	Part pay for co.	100	0	0
29*	Conrad Weiser	Part pay of his co. at Reading	400	0	0
30	Joseph Fox	Balance for accounts examined and settled	234	2	11½

December
1	John Baldwin	50 pr. shoes for forces	18	15	0
2*	Robert Owen	Book-keeper for Commissioners	20	0	0
3	Anthony Benezet	Maintenance of Neutral French to Nov. 29	27	19	9
3	William Galbreath	Pay as commissary of stores at Hunter’s Mills	98	16	5
3	William Moore of Lancaster	Carrying 10 bbls. rum, 18 spades, 19 shovels, 50 hatchets for Clapham’s use to Ft. Hunter	7	0	0
4	William Clinton	6 spades and 2 shovels	3	4	0
4	John Abraham Denormandie	In part, maintenance of Neutral French in Bucks Co.	100	0	0
4	Ens. William Johnston	To pay men absent when mustermaster paid	84	5	6
4	Ens. William Johnston	Pay for garrison at Hunter’s Fort	388	8	6
4	Matthew Rea	Maintenance of Neutral French and purchase of wool “to employ said French in working”	12	1	5½
4	Capt. Elisha Salter	Part pay for self and co.	100	0	0
5	William Henry of Lancaster Co.	Work done at Harris’s and Shamokin	43	17	6
5	Capt. Thomas McKee	Expense of journeys; service as interpreter; allowance for trouble and time; paid in full	61	8	6
6	Joseph Fox	Disbursements for gov. and commrs. at Easton	112	9	2
6	Lynford Lardner	Sundry small accounts	100	0	0
6	Capt. Frederick Smith	Part pay for self and co.	569	17	6
6	Moses Tattamay	Attending Indians to Fort Allen, and other services	10	0	0
13*	Hughes & Jones	Sundries furnished province	240	6	9
13	Philip Syng	Work and materials to alter workhouse to guardhouse for King’s troops	95	11	3
16	Robert Armstrong	Timer and boards delivered to Clapham	25	6	6¼
16	Rev. Charles Beatty	Chaplain to Col. Clapham’s regt., 111 days at 6s. 8d.	37	0	0
16*	Benjamin Franklin	For David Barclay of London, for arms	1365	11	2¼
16	Johan Leidig	Medicines and attendance on Esther Clear	17	8	0

16	Capt. James Patterson	Advance pay for his co. of rangers	20	0	0
16	Richard Peters	Express to Col. Clapham; expenses of Denny and Logan at Easton	12	5	0
17*	John Baker and Abraham Wayne	Shipwrights; work for province	47	2	6
17*	Capt. Thomas Lloyd	James Young drafts on Michael Teass and Lloyd	250	0	0
17*	Capt. John Van Etten	Pay and subsistence of his co., per James Hyndshaw	308	2	6
18	Capt. Edward Croston	Advance, victualling Shamokin forces	200	0	0
18	Joseph Fox	Avance, to pay sundry small accounts	100	0	0
22	Samuel Hunter	Pasturage, victuals and rum furnished forces at Shamokin	28	13	6½
24	Charles Coyle	For mare lost on Kittanning expedition	9	0	0
24	Nathaniel Miles	Diet furnished sundry soldiers	7	0	6
24	Charles Osborne	Medicines for Armstrong’s battalion	19	14	7½
27*	David Edwards	Maintenance of Indians at State House	134	14	19½
27	Michael McGuire	Carpenter’s work at Shamokin	17	14	6
28	Hannah Boyte (Boyd)	Maintenance of sundry Indians, Dec. 3	25	8	0
28	Thomas James	Services on Indian affairs	2	15	2
28*	Henry Keppele	Maintaining Hambright’s men before May 30	40	1	0
28	Capt. George Noarth or Benjamin Loxley	Disbursements for use of city artillery	39	6	5
28	Charles Norris	Residue of £30,000 funds	1420	19	5¾
29	William Buchanan	Contract to supply troops west of Susquehanna	1500	0	0
29	John Hughes	Rugs, blankets, bedding, pots, kettles, utensils used by King’s troops in city	500	0	0
29	Conrad Weiser	Pay, self and co.; victualling Capt. Busse’s co., 25 pr. shoes for Geo. Gabriel; saddle, bridle, and rifle for Indian; and in full Wolfganhager the gunsmith’s account	457	17	3

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Title: Provincial Commissioners: Orders for Payment [November 23–December 29, 1756]
Author: Provincial Commissioners
Date: 1756

Reference

Cite as: “Provincial Commissioners: Orders for Payment [November 23–December 29, 1756],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-07-02-0010. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 7, October 1, 1756 through March 31, 1758, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963, pp. 25–28.]