28
AMERICAN HISTORICAL AssocriTroN.
1795
19 By Cash p 4 Joseph Burr to purchase land warrants say 150.000 @ 20 Dollars___________________________________
Jan 7
2, 000
March 14 By Cash Recd of you to purchase land warrants under Con- tract of March 16--------------------------------------- Deer 1 By Cash Recd of ,Joseph Burr_____________________________ By my Draft on Jn° D Blanchard__________________________
1, 000 2. 300
. 315
$5.615
1796 Jan 7 20 By Ealanece Due M A_____________________________________ 889 52
$651~2
1,furTu 0oMl'lUSSION No.
The Commonwealth of Virginia. To :Moses Austin,-Gentleman:
Know You, That from the special Trust and Confidence reposed in your Fidelity, Courage, Activity, and good Conduct, and upon the Recommendation of the Court of the County of Wythe, our Gov- ernor, pursuant to the Act for regulating the Militia of this Common- wealth, doth appoint you the said Moses Austin Captain of a Com- pany of the Second Battalion, of the thirty-fifth Regiment of the said Militia., to take Rank as such, agreeably to the-number thereof. In Testimony whereof, These our Letters are Sealed with the Seal of the Commonwealth, and made Patent. Witness, Robert Brooke, Esquire, our said Governor, at Richmond, this 23d, day of March 1796. [Registered:] SAM. COLEMAN. p ARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT Memorandum of an agreement made and enterd into this 20 th • day of april 1796 Between Moses Austin on the one part and Thomas Norvell and Parsons Bates of the other Witnesseth That the said Austin and the said Norvell and Bates doth covenant and agree each with the other to establish a button manufactory in the city of Rich- mond which shall be under the firm [name] of Parsons Bates and Company to continue for the term of one year from the date hereof under the management of the said Norvell and Bates as follows the said Bates shall attend to the workmanship in said factory with the
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