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Canal Company operations

Canal notes, 1840

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Washington Aug. 9, 1840
No. 1158

Nine Months after date

THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO
CANAL COMPANY

Promise to pay on Demand at their Office in the City of
Washington to T. Fillebrown Jr. or Bearer


FIVE DOLLARS with Interest from date.


Thm. Turner Clerk Francis Thomas Prest.

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The $10 note is payable at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal office in Frederick.

Payment for services of negro, 1830

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First Division Second Residency
of the Chs & Ohio Canal 26th July 1830

Chs & Ohio Canal Company
TO Charles Wallace Dr

TO 6 days services of negro man Regin [?] axeman in the Employ of the Corps of Engineers at 87 1/2 cts per day including board being between the 1st and 20th July inst. - $5.25

Recd 26th July 1830 of Daniel VanShyke [?]
Resident Engineer five dollars and twenty five cents in full of the above accounting

Charles Wallace

Payment for services of a negro man, 1829

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First Division Second Residency
of the Chs & Ohio Canal 17th Nov. 1829

Chs & Ohio Canal Company

To Knox Hale & Co. Dr

To 7 days service of negro man Robert as axeman in the Employ of the Corps of Engineers from the 10th to the 17th of August last inclusive at 80 cts per day including board - $5.60

Recd 8th July 1830 of Daniel [?]
Resident Engineer five 60/100 dollars in full of the above account
Knox L. Holak & Co. [?]