American Manufacture
Receipt, 1809. This 1809 AMERICAN MANUFACTURE document served as an order
from Tench Coxe, in his position as Purveyor of Public Supplies, for Sea Island
cotton for the military. It is also a signed receipt for payment to Robert
Whittle, and a signed receipt (”Geo Ingalls”?) as the goods were put into inventory at the U.S. Arsenal. The
latter signed receipts are marked as duplicates, there apparently being a desire
to have the entire transaction recorded on this one piece of paper.