Remitted funds for clerk salary
Document 1795Informs Joshua Wentworth that the Treasurer will remit him the sum of 187 dollars for the salary of Edmund Quincy, Clerk of the Naval Yard.
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eighty seven Dollars and fifty Cents being for your sa-
lary from the 1st July to the 30th Sept.r 1795 inc.d for w[hich]
you will please sign duplicate Receipts.
I am Sir &c.
W.m Simmons
D. of War. Accountants Office
Joshua Wentworth Esq.r October 30th 1795.
Supt.r Portsmouth
New Hamps.r
Sir,
The Treasurer of the Un[ited States]
will remit you the Sum of 187 Dollars and 50 Cents
being for the Salary of Edmund H. Quincy Clerke of the
Naval Yard, Portsmouth from the 1st July to the [30th]
Sept.r 1795 inc.d for which Sum you will please to [take]
his Receipts.
I am Sir &c.
W.m Simmons
D. of War. Accountants Office
Major John Carson October 30th 1795.
Sir,
You having received from this Depart[ment]
on the 19th Nov.r 1794 the Sum of 8864 Dollars & 77 Cents
for the pay due the Scouts called into Service for the Pro[tec]-
tion of the Frontiers of North Carolina from 5th Feb.y to 21
Aug.t 1794 and entered into Bond for the due applicati[on]
thereof agreeably to the Instructions received from the [late]
Accountant.
I have to inform you that the Vouch[ers]
produced by you for the Expenditures of that Sum are
not agreeably to those Instructions: You having brou[ght]
forward Receipts signed by a Number of Persons as Att[or]-
nies
Type
Letterbook
Description
Informs Joshua Wentworth that the Treasurer will remit him the sum of 187 dollars for the salary of Edmund Quincy, Clerk of the Naval Yard.
Date
10/30/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Accountant's Office
Document number
1795103021655
Page start
289
Notable persons
Johsua Wentworth
William Simmons
[Samuel Meredith]
Edmund Quincy
treasurer
supervisor Portsmouth New Hampshire
clerk of naval yard
Notable locations
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
War Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
frigate construction
frigate Congress
receipts
salary

