Accounts of Captain Brooks
Document 1793Enclosed is Capt. Brooks's accounts and a copy of the receipt.
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[Docket, right margin:] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / March [undecipherable] 1793
Legion Ville March 7. 1793
Sir
Enclosed is captain Joph Brooks accounts and a copy of My Receipt + I am Sir
y.ro.b.Sert.
Caleb Swan
[undecipherable]
Jos. Howell Esqr.
[Copy]
No 1. — Lewiville February 10 1793.
Received of Joseph Brook Captain N. Lab. Legion of the [undecipherable] States — his recruiting account marked No 1. supported by 59 enlistments, & receipts for bounty Marked No 2. Amount [undecipherable] One hundred 9/10 Dollars — a packet marked No 3 Containing 43 Receipts fr pay & recruiting money advanced Amount 179 [undecipherable] Dollars — And also an account fr pay ments made to his late company of [undecipherable] Levies Marked No 4. supported by 32 Vouchers & a Letter of explanation — Amount [undecipherable] 1415 [undecipherable] Cents — All sealed — which I propose to transmit by the post to Joseph Howell Accountant for the War department — Agreeably to his instructions — [undecipherable: probable reading "Certified"].
Caleb Swan Paymaster of the [undecipherable] of the United States
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Enclosed is Capt. Brooks's accounts and a copy of the receipt.
Date
03/07/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Legionville
Document number
1793030715201
Page start
1
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
Caleb Swan
Notable locations
Legionville
Notable items
account
receipt

