MS 113.  Literal transcription – misspellings are left intact, xxx denotes illegible word, italicized items are my own comments for clarification.  Please note that in some instances, the letter “s” may have been replaced with the letter “f” and the letter “e” may have been replaced with the letter “o,” as was the custom at that time – TG.

Title Page:

Pilemon Dickinfon Esq’r

Pounds symbol 24.10.0

No58

Ed’d xxx (looks like Hillowl or Hillobl, but obviously that is incorrect)

Wm. Newbold

Jno. Lambert

Verso upside-down:

Philemon Dickinson

Body:

STATE OF NEW-JERSEY.

THIS is to certify, that the Honorable Philemon Dickinfon Esquire – a Member of the Council- has attended Forty Nine Days this prefent Sitting; for which he is entitled to received Twenty four pounds ten Shillings- from the Treafury of this State.  GIVEN under my Hand in Council – this Twenty fourth Day of December 1784

                                                Signed: Wil. Livingston Prefid’t