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Memorandum of the Actual traveling
expenses of James B igby
Interpreter while accompanying an Emigration Party uipon the route of
emigration.
March
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28th
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Paid for S. Boat
Fare from the Cherokee agency (East) to Browns Ferry, Tenn. River
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8.00 |
April
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4th
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Paid for S. Boat
Fare from Florence to Waterloo, Ala
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2.00
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11th
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Paid for passae
from Waterloo, Ala. to Little Rock
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40.00
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20th
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Paid for S. Boat
Fare from Lt. Rock to McLeans Bottom, Arks
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10.00
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23rd
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Expenses in camp
from McLeans Bottom to Salasaw Creek
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2.00
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Amount
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$62.00
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I certify that the above is a correct
memorandum of my
expenses.
James Bigbey, Jr., Interpreter.
Source: RG217,
General Accounting Office, Treasury Department, Second Auditor, Indian
Accounts, 1817-1922, Edward Deas File
United States to James Bigbey
1838
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For his services as
Interpreter commencing on the 13 March and ending on the 1 May at $2.50
per day, 40 days
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$100.00
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For his actual
traveling expenses accompanying an Emigrating Party in the above time
as per memorandum appended
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62.00
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For his
transportation returning from Salisaw Creek in the Cherokee Country
West to the Cherokee Agency East, distance 750 miles at 10 cts per mile
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72.00
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Amount
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$237.00
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Received Cherokee Country (West) 1 May 1838 of Edwd Deas, Lt. USA
Signed James Bigbey, Jr.
Source: RG217,
General Accounting Office, Treasury Department, Second Auditor, Indian
Account, 1817-1922, Edward Deas File
United States to James Bigbey
For his services as
Interpreter in the Cherokee emigration commencing on the 2nd and ending
on the 20th of June 1838, 19 days @ $2.50 per day
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47.50
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For his actual
traveling expenses while accompanying an emigrating party in the above
dates as per memorandum
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72.00
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For his
transportation returning from Fort Coffee to Cherokee Agency East, 750
miles. 10 cts
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75.00
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$194.50
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Received Fort Coffee Arkansas 20 June 1838 of Edward Deas, Lieut.
U.S.A. Signed: James Bigbey, Jr.
Source: RG217,
General Accounting Office, Treasury Department, Second
Auditor, Indian Accounts, 1817-1922, Edward Deas File.
Memorandum of the actual traveling expenses of James Bigbey
transportation accompanying a Party of Cherokees from Cherokee Agency,
East to Fort Coffee, Arks.
1838
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9 June
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S. Boat passage from
Ross Landing to Decatur, Ala
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6.00
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10
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Passage on R. Road
to Tuscumbia
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2.00
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20
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Passage on Smelter
from Tuscumbia, Ala to Fort Coffee, Arks.
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65.00
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$72.00
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I certify on honour that the above memorandum is correct.
James Bigby, Jr.
Source: RG217,
General Accounting Office, Treasury Department, Second
Auditor, Indian Accounts, 1817-1922, Edward Deas File.
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