Bounty & Premiums for Recruiting
Document 1791The Secretary of War has directed that $320 be transmitted to Smith for the bounty and premiums awarded for the recruitment of forty men. Smith will receive Post Notes of the Bank of North America for that sum for which duplicate receipts should be returned to the Secretary.
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Pay office.
Philadelphia. Octo. 3d. 1791
Sir
I am directed by the Secretary of War to transmit you [strikethrough: two] hundred of [strikethrough: twenty] forty dollars being for Bounty & Premium for recruiting [strikethrough: twentyfivemen]. you will [strikethrough: herein] receive [strikethrough: 4] Such Notes of the Bank of North America for that Sum. for which you will please to return me duplicate Receipts by Separate Posts under cover to the Secretary of [undecipherable].
I am
Sir
your obedient Servant
Captain John Smith
New York
[3d Oct. 1791 A.
Captain John Smith.
encl. $376 Do.]
Type
Autograph Letter
Description
The Secretary of War has directed that $320 be transmitted to Smith for the bounty and premiums awarded for the recruitment of forty men. Smith will receive Post Notes of the Bank of North America for that sum for which duplicate receipts should be returned to the Secretary.
Date
10/03/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pay Office
Document number
1791100321001
Page start
1
Note
Author is assumed to be Joseph Howell, Accountant of the War. Dept.
Notable persons
John Smith
Joseph Howell
Notable locations
New York
Pay Office