Payment of Captain Henry DeButts
Document 1795Simmons certifies that $394.29 is due Captain Henry DeButts for the expenses of himself and his servant coming from Major General Wayne to the Secretary of War with dispatches and for their stay in Philadelphia.
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War Department
Accountant's Office
April 10th 1798
I certify that there is due to James Sellar The sum of two hundred twenty four Dollars and ninety [undecipherable] Cents being for the amount of his Bill of [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] First Interpreter and two [undecipherable] Chiefs which at his [undecipherable] from the 10th of March to the 10th of April 1798 including the sum of fifty Dollars to be delivered to [undecipherable] to defray the [undecipherable] of said Chiefs to their own country.
Doll 224 [undecipherable]
Wm Simmons
Accountant
The Secy of War
Accountants Office
April [undecipherable] 1798
I certify that there is due to Capt Henry De Butts the sum of three hundred [undecipherable] four Dollars and twenty nine Cents being on account coming from [undecipherable] to the Secretary of War with Dispatches and for [undecipherable] of himself and servant while in Philadelphia from the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] of April 1798
Doll [undecipherable]
Wm Simmons
Accountant
The Secy of War
Department of War
Accountants Office
April [undecipherable] 1798
I certify that there is due to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Division of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], the sum of two hundred [undecipherable] Dollars being the balance of his [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] April [undecipherable] inclusive and for [undecipherable] on the same [undecipherable]
Doll [undecipherable]
Wm Simmons
Accountant
The Secy of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons certifies that $394.29 is due Captain Henry DeButts for the expenses of himself and his servant coming from Major General Wayne to the Secretary of War with dispatches and for their stay in Philadelphia.
Date
04/15/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1795041521255
Page start
2
Notable persons
Timothy Pickering
William Simmons
Captain Henry DeButts
Major General Wayne
servant
Secretary of War
accountant
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Accountant's Office
Notable items
expenses
dispatches

