Rawlingsville, AL

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Receipt to Dr. C. Lillybridge
Bo't of W.W. Macfarlane

1837
Decr 5th
2 Doz Warm Tea

$1.50
1838
Jany. 1
4 lbs Sugar @20c

.80

3
5 yds. Domestic @ 18 3/4

.94

"
1/2 yd Flannel @ 50

.25

"7
1 wash pan

.37

"15
1 Bottle Castor Oil

1.00

"21
2 brown Lancets@50

1.00

" "
1 Bottle Cayenne Pepper

.25

"22
1 Bottle Sweet Oil (small)

.25

" "
5 Do Brittish Oil @ 25c

1.25

"23
1/2 lb. Cotton @ 25c

.13

" "
1 Bottle Sweet Oil (large)

1.00

" "
1/2 lb Castile Sopa @ 2/3

.18

" 25
1 pr. Sheets

1.00

" 28
1 Bottle Sweet Oil (small)

.50

" "
2 lbs Bees Wax @ 25

.50

" "
5 lbs Same @ 12 1/2

.63

Feby. 1
10 yds Domestic @ 20c

2.00

" "
2 lbs Sugar

.40




$14.17

I hereby certify that the above articles were purchased for, and were indispensably necessary for the sick at Cher. Post No. 4 near Rawlingsville, Ala. & I am accountable for the same.  C. Lillybridge, M. D., Physician in Ch. Emig.

Receipt signed by Mcfarlane

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

Receipt to Hilly Pippin

March 4, 1838, For furnishing seven wagons & teams and hauling ninety Cherokee Emigrants and their baggage from Rawlingsville, Ala. To the Bellefonte Landing on Tennessee River twenty seven miles allowing four days and a half commencing on the 12th and ending the 16th day of March 1838 at four dollars per day for each team, $126.00.

Appoved by Nat. Smith, Superindendent of Cherokee removal; paid by Lt. Edward Deas; signed by Pippin

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


United States to Buffalo

1838




Feby 21

For labour performed in building a cabin at the Indian Camp near Rawlingsville Ala for the use of Cherokee Emigrants

$10.00

I certify that the above account is correct & that the labor therein stated was performed.

Rawlingsville, Ala, February 21, 1838.  John S. Young, Assit Supt C. E.

 Signed by his mark Buffalow, Cherokee Country, Ala, 28 March 1838

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


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