Funds for the Ordnance Dept. at West Point
Document 1794The sum of $6,000 is to be transmitted to George Fleming at West Point for the incidental expenses of the Ordnance Department and for repairs and articles directed to be made and purchased by the President.
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of you will receive Three Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty dollars agreeably to the list of [undecipherable] enclosed being the sum [undecipherable] estimated to be due to the troops at Fort Fayette and its dependencies to the 1st [undecipherable] including Capt Hunts detachment whose pay commences the 1st [undecipherable] last— Capt Hawes detachment, I have commenced from 1st May as will appear by the enclosed estimate for which month I find you have paid them so that there will be a surplus on this account— In this sum One Hundred and eighty dollars is included to pay [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as a [undecipherable] Col Thomas Butler as a Major to April, May and June, and 3 dollars [undecipherable] balance of pay due Ensign John M'Clery to 1st [undecipherable]— I inclose their accounts on which you will please to take their receipts to be returned as your vouchers— In future Ensign M'Clery may be made up in the pay rolls— But it will be proper that Col. Butler should receive his pay and forage separately untill his publick accounts are closed—
James Craig Esq I am Sir &c.
Pittsburgh Joseph Howell
W.D. Accountants Office
Sir October 16th 1794
The Treasurer will remit you the
Type
Letterbook Copy
Description
The sum of $6,000 is to be transmitted to George Fleming at West Point for the incidental expenses of the Ordnance Department and for repairs and articles directed to be made and purchased by the President.
Date
10/16/1794
Recipient
Document number
1794101621055
Page start
335
Note
[signed Benjamin Mifflin in the absence of the Accountant]
Notable persons
Nicholas Fish
Benjamin Mifflin
Notable locations
New York
Accountant's Office

