John N. Reeves

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A memorandum of expenses of Jno N. Reeves while accompanying a detachment of Cherokee Indians from the Cherokee East to their Country west of the Mississippi.

June 8th
Passage on steamer George Guess to Decatur

$5.00

11
Passage on the rail road to Tuscumbia

2.25

20
Dinner at Decatur

.50

Supper at Tuscumbia

.50

Supper at the Landing

.25

20
Passage on Steamer Smelter from Tuscumbia to Fort Coffee

65.00

$73.50

I certify on Honor that the above account of my actual expenses is true.
20th June 1838

Jno N. Reeves, Assistant Conductor

Source: RG217, General Accounting Office, Treasury Department, Second Auditor, Indian Accounts, 1817-1922, Edward Deas File