Voucher for the Payment of 116 [pounds] Sterling for 232 Bushels of Wheat at 10 [shillings] pr Bushel purchased from Individuals to issue to those Victualled from the Publick Stores on Norfolk Island', 19 January 1796 (Series 39.016) - No. 0001

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Norfolk Island 19th January 1796.

Voucher for the Payment of Two hundred, and thirty two Bushels of Wheat, at ten Shillings the Bushel, purchas'd from Settlers, & others , between the 4th. Decemr. 1795 , and the 9th of January 1796, agreeably to my Order to the Deputy Commissary, dated the 23rd. November 1795 .

Philip Gidley King

We, whose Names are here unto Subscribed, do acknowledge to have received from Captain Philip Gidley King, Lieutenant Governor of Norfolk Island, Payment for the Quantities of Wheat expressed against our respective Names, at ten Shillings the Bushel, for the Purpose of issuing to those victualled from His Majesty's Stores as notified by the General Orders of the 23rd. November 1795.

vizt.

Names  Quality  No. of Bushels Amount  
£. s. d. Witness to those who cannot write their Names
Ths. Jamison

Assistant

Surgeon

37 18 10 "  
Edward Garth Setter 14 7 " "  

Heny Hathaway

his mark

Settler 55 27 10 " Anthony Fenn Kemp
D'Wentworth Superint. 78 39 " "  

JamesShirley

his mark

Overseer. 48 24 " " Anthony Fenn Kemp

 

Bushels 232 116 " "  

Witnesses to the above Payment
Anthony Fenn Kemp; Ensign of the N.S.Wales Corps
Edgar Thomas. Dell Commander Fancy Snow

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