Receipt of Payment for Carriage Equipment, [3 February 1810]

Receipt of Payment for Carriage Equipment

[3 February 1810]

1810	Coll. Robert Patten for the President of the United States, Dr, to Robert Fielding

febr. 3. 1810	To 3 new full plated Globes for the Chariot	30,—
	six ℔ of the best wax canoles1 for do	4,80
	a Case for do. & Porterage	2,—
		$36,80
	Recd payment from Coll Patten

Rob,t. Fielding

Ms (DLC).

1. Canole: a variant spelling of cannel, a hard bituminous coal that burns very brightly; also sometimes written channel and, more frequently, candle (OED Online description begins Oxford English Dictionary, www.oed.com. description ends ).

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Title: Receipt of Payment for Carriage Equipment, [3 February 1810]
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 3 February 1810

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Cite as: “Receipt of Payment for Carriage Equipment, [3 February 1810],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0537. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 8, July 1814–18 February 1815 and supplement December 1779–18 April 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, p. 620.]