List of vouchers to the accounts of the Secretary of War for 1788
Document 1789List of vouchers for the hospital, clothing, and quartermaster departments.
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[1789 8 Nov 1789 5505 [No. 3?]]
List of Vouchers wanting to the accounts of the Secretary at war for 1788.
Subsistance ¾
v 1788. 3 Nov. paid Wm Smith to Subsist the troops at [undecipherable] Springfield by Colonel Wadsworth 500
v No 4 Decr .... paid for 6908 Rations for 1t Pratts [undecipherable] det 851.62
Hospital Department
Nov. 10. Paid Dr Witt for Medicines for 1t Pratts detacht 1.52
v Decr 20 Paid Dr Fisk on 1t Pratts order 35.40
Cloathing Department
3¾ v Decr 20 17 pair Shoes for 1t Pratts detachment 1990
Quarter masters department
J. Johnston for transportation of clothing from Say book 0.80
Sap v Silas Miller for freight of Clothing to Springfield 0.80
3% v — Cook for Botage 0.48
3% v — Mitchell for a Cask of shoes bought from Plank 0.2[undecipherable]
3¾ v — E. Burt for botage of Clothing his expedition 0.43
v Cash paid for Wood & Barracks at Lee 42.50
3% v Patron & Ellery for Barracks 25.
v G. Wadsworth for transporting 1t Pratts Baggage
[undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Point [undecipherable]
NB. The Vouchers to Colonel Wadsworth's Private acct with the Secretary at war that were necessary to the Support of the Public accounts of the B W. [undecipherable], have been taken out and filed with the said Public Acct Marked within v thus —
W.O. 8 Novr 1789.
C Swan
[Memorandum Nov. 8. 89]
Type
Document Signed
Description
List of vouchers for the hospital, clothing, and quartermaster departments.
Date
11/08/1789
Author
Sent from
War Office
Repository
Collection
Document number
1789110815001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Caleb Swan
Patton
Ellery
Wadsworth
Mitchell
E. Burt
Capt. Atwood
Silas Miller
S. Johnson
Fisk
Colonel Wadsworth
Lt. Pratt
Wm. Smith
Notable locations
War Office
W. Point
New York
Jay Creek
Springfield
Notable items
necessary to the support of the public account
taken out and filed
baggage
wood & barracks
cook for boatage
cask of shoes
transportation of clothing
freight of clothing
Clothing Department
pair shoes
Quarter Masters Department
rations
Hospital Department
medicines
detachment
paid
subsist the troops
list of vouchers wanting to the accounts of the Secretary at War for subsistence

