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Thomas Hutchins Seeks Payment Owed A Detachment At Fort Chartres

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Thomas Hutchins Seeks Payment Owed A Detachment At Fort Chartres
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THOMAS HUTCHINS (1730-1789) Military Engineer, Cartographer, Geographer and Surveyor. Hutchins served as Geographer of the United States and was also a recipient of the Copley Medal. Manuscript Document Signed, “Tho. Hutchins.” One page, 7 3/8” x 4”.Fort Chartres. December 8, 1769. The document reads, in part: “ … At ten days sight of this my Third Bill, First & Second of the same Tenor & Date not paid, Please to pay to Messrs Baynton Wharton & Morgan on order the sum of Thirty Eight Pounds Sixteen Shillings New York Currency being for subsistence paid a detachment of your company at this place … ”Overall Very Fine.