Waterloo, AL

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Expenses of Steam Boat Smelter while at Waterloo & Tuscumbia in the Recesses of Employment in the Cherokee Emigration

Ready for services under the Contract on 19 Jany 1838

Left for Louisville 8 Feby 1838 at Noon
Arrived from Louisville 20 Feby 1838 at do [ditto]

Capt. for month
150

2 pilots for
250

2 Engineers for
150

2 Stewards for
60

1 Cabbin Boy
15

1 Chambermaid
20

2 Cooks
65

2 Mates for
100

6 Deck Hands
150

6 Firemen
150

1 Carpenter
60

1 Clerk
100

Provision
280 dollars

1550.00

We certify the above to be a true statement of expenses of the Steam Boat Smnelter and that the Boat was actually absent and employed on the trip to Louisvieel as above stated.

Daniel Daniel Clk

P. H. Mitchell Clk

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

United States to Robert Brown

1838

For his services as Interpreter in the Cherokee Emigration, commencing on the 27 January and Ending on the 27 March 1838 at $2.50 per day

60 days

Amount

$150.00

Signed by Robert Brown at Waterloo, Ala., 5 April 1838

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

Waterloo, Alabama Site Report