Monday, November 9, 2009

WINFIELD, Scott Co., April 17, 1862.

EDITOR GAZETTE – Dear Sir : In your issue of the 16th inst., I see the result of the work of the member Finance Committee of Blue Grass Township, up to the 16th. I herewith send you the result of one day’s work in Winfield:

William D. Quinn, $4.30; John C. Quinn, $1; Mary Ann Knouse, $1; David Knouse, $1; John Knouse, $1; Robert Brownlie, $8; Jacob Kettenring, $1; Charles Bohsted, 1; James Watson, 1; Alexander Brownlie, 5; James Brownlie, $5; A. W. Brownlie, 1; Jno McManus, $1; Francis Darnell, $2; Andrew Bell, 2; Henry J. Vandeve, $1; William Murison, Jun., 25c; William Murison, Sen’r., 50c; H. M. Thomson, $5; John R. Thompson, $1;John Hawkes, 50c; Thomas Grieve, Jr., $1; William Grieve, $1; John Pollock, 2; Mary Henry Hartz, $1; Casper [Sclephel], 50c; A. Peterson, $1; Carsten Hartz, $1;John Robertson, $2; George Baughman, $2; C. H. Ficke $2; James H. Hopkins, $1; M. A. Dowden, 50c; John R. Sanders, Hictory Grove township, 50c; James Quinn, $3. Total 64.05.

I have forwarded $55 of the above amount to the Corresponding secretary of the Scott Co. Soldiers’ Relief Association. I hope to be able soon to give you a good account of Winfield.

JAMES QUINN,
Member of Finance Com. Winfield Twp.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 19, 1862, p. 1

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