Certification of payments; account of West Point Detachment
Document 1798Certification that $1794 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at West Point, being for the pay, subsistence, and forage of the commissioned officers and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates through December 1797.
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who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same
Pay of the Army 1304 43
Subce of Officers 524 57
Forage &c 72
Bounties to Fellows 93 —
[strikethrough: ] 1794 —
Secy of War
Accountants Office
January 25 1795
I Certify that there is due to two Detachments of Militia commanded by Lieut John Mc Intire & one Jacob Bozeman and the scouts employed on the frontiers of Clarke & County [Kentucky] — called into service by Governor Isaac Shelby conformable to his instructions from the Secy of War — the sum of fourteen hundred forty three Dollars 80 being for their services from the 20th April to the 30th October 1793 which sum is payable to Thomas Dale Randall Substitute Attorney to the said Militia & Scouts
W Simmons
11463 [undecipherable] Militia's services on the Frontiers of Kentucky [undecipherable]
Secy of War
Accountants Office
January 30 1798
I Certify that there is due to Lieut Asa Gibson and the Scouts stationed at the Rendezvous at Hauns the sum of two hundred seventy six Dollars 35 being for his & their pay from October to 31 Decemr 97 inclusive which sum is to be transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor at Richmond to be by him paid to the said Lieut Gibson who is held accountable for the due application of the same
£276 35 Pay of the Army [undecipherable]
W Simmons
[undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $1794 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at West Point, being for the pay, subsistence, and forage of the commissioned officers and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates through December 1797.
Date
01/29/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798012921051
Page start
93
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Lieutenant Nehemiah Freeman
temporary paymaster West Point
detachment
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
accountant
Secretary of War
non-commissioned officers
privates
commissioned officers
Notable locations
West Point
New York
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
forage
subsistence

