Payment to Scouts on Ohio County Virginia
Document 1791Sundry receipts and statements related to the employment of Scouts in Ohio County Virginia.
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Ohio County. I do hereby testify that the within Abstract Contains a just & true [account] of all the Spies under my Direction agreeable to my Instructions of the 25th of December 1791. from the Board of War & was duly Attested & sworn to before the Same Given Under my hand this 24 day of January 1792.
David Shepherd
Ty Lieut of Ohio
I do Certify that Col. David Shepherd County Lieutenant for Ohio County Signed the above Instrument in my presents the Date as above
[signature]
[Damaged/partially illegible section:]
David Shepherd Lieutenant
The Sum of Two thousand [undecipherable]
a[b]stract, — Payable to
scouts.
Head Quarters Legion [undecipherable]
To Maj Genl A. Wayne.
[Right column, partially legible:]
1792 to me Scouts employ[ed]
[pro]tection of S[ai]d County in [undecipherable]
annexed Muster Roll and [undecipherable]
attorney for the use of [undecipherable]
[r]ou Pay master of the
Troops of the United States
[Paymaster] of
Ohio County [Virginia]
[Warrant] for [War?] [undecipherable] 2.
[The] War Office 2015 [undecipherable]
[Stamp: This record has been filed with rolls of Scouts and Spies Virginia (1790-1792)]
[Stamp: Referred to Files OCT 30 1915 CA[undecipherable]]
Abstract for the year 1[792]
being for the Spies for
[one] year agreeable to [the] [undecipherable]
Abstract of the [Lieutenant] e[x]pens for the County of Ohio under my direction
Agreeable to the Order of the Board of War, of the 25th of Decr. 1791 and as
followeth [Viz.]
Thomas Edgington Entered to Service the 10 of February 1792 & continued
Thinto the 31st of Decr. Ensuing both Days included . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ¥ 326 83. 10
Isaac Edgington Entered to Service the 10 of July 1792. & Continued unto
the 31 day of Decr. Ensuing both Days Included . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ¥ 326 83. 10
John Williams Entered to [serve] the 10 of July 1792 & Continued unto the
last day of July Ensuing & from that time to the last day of Decr Ensuing ¥ 326 84. 10
John Williamson Entered to Service the 18 of July 1792 & Continued unto
the last day of July & from that time to the 24 of [Decr]. Ensuing . . . ¥ 289 72. 8[undecipherable]
Martin Whitzell Entered to Service the 10 of July 1792. & Continued
Unto the 2nd of August Ensuing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ¥ [175] 45. 10
George McCullock in Room of Martin Whitzell from the 12 of August [undecipherable]
1792. to the 18 of Decr. Ensuing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ¥ 129 32. 6
Jeremiah Williams Entered to Service the 10 of [July] 1792. & Continued
[Unto] the last [day] of July & from [that] to the 18 of Decr. Ensuing . . . ¥ 313 79. 0
Benjamin [Lockwood] Entered to Service the 10 of July 1792. & Continued
Thinto the 1[2]th of [April]. both Days included . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ¥ 62. 10. 10
[James] Smith in Room of Benjamin Lockwood his time Commencing the
the 9 of [April] 1792 & Continued to the last [day] of July from that to the
[undecipherable] of Decr. Ensuing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ¥ [undecipherable] 68. [undecipherable]
Thomas Harper Entered the 10 of [July] 1792 & Continued unto the 31 of
Decr. Ensuing both Days Incl[uded] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ¥ 326 84. 10
The amount of the above . . . . . . . . . [undecipherable] 48. 22. 1[undecipherable]
Ballance Due [undecipherable] Harper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69. 8[undecipherable]
Service 1792 Days Dollars Cts
Amount due Thomas Edgington . . . . 326 . . . . . . . . 271. 66⅔
ditto . . . Isaac Edgington . . . . . . 326 . . . . . . . . 271. 66⅔
ditto . . . John Williams . . . . . . . 326 . . . . . . . . 271. 66⅔
ditto . . . John Williamson . . . . . . 289 . . . . . . . . 240. 83⅓
{ditto . . . Martin Whitzell . . . . . . 175 . . . . . . . . 145. 83⅓
{ditto . . . George McCullock . . . . . 129 . . . . . . . . 107. 50.
do. Jeremiah Williams . . . . . . . . 313 . . . . . . . . 260. 83⅓
* [T]. Benjamin Lockwood . . . . . . . 63 . . . . . . . . 52. 50
[T]. James Smith . . . . . . . . . 246 . . . . . . . . 205.
Thomas Harper . . . . . . . . . . . 326 . . . . . . . . 271. 66⅔
Dollars . . . 2099. 16⅔
Deduct from pay of Benjamin Lockwood
for 11 days pay, he having accepted a commission
in the Legion on the 2 April 1792 —— 9. 16⅔
Deduct an advance by Joseph Howell
Made to Thomas Harper —— 75. 84. 16⅔
amt due . . . Dolls 2015.
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Type
Document Signed
Description
Sundry receipts and statements related to the employment of Scouts in Ohio County Virginia.
Date
12/29/1791
Author
Document number
1791122915001
Page start
1
Notable persons
David Shepherd
Scouts
Major General Anthony Wayne
Thomas Edgington
Isaac Edgington
John Williams
John Williamson
Martin Whitzell
George McCullock
Jeremiah Williams
Benjamin Lockwood
James Smith
Thomas Harper
Joseph Howell
Notable locations
Headquarters Legion Ville

