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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you enclosing a Receipt from Capt Samuel Finley da[ted]
22 October Instt for the Sum of five hundred Dollars an[d]
80 Cents which shall be passed to your Credit.
I must beg to refer you to a passage in my letter of
29th Septr 1795 requesting you to transmit a Memorandum
or List of the Rects you enclose; this is necessary for the
purpose of procuring a voucher for the files of this Office
I am Sir &c.
Wm Simmons
D. of War. Accountants Office
October 29, 1795.
John Chester Esqr
Supt Wethersfield
Connecticut
Sir,
I have received your Letters of
the 25 and 26 Instt enclosing the following Receipts viz:
Capt. Decius Wadsworth for - - - - 26000/100
" Edward Millers for - - - - 400
Dollars 66000/100
amounting to six hundred sixty Dollars and fifty five C[ents]
which will be passed to your Credit accordingly.
I am Sir &c.
Wm Simmons
D. of War. Accountants Office
October 30, 1795.
Joshua Wentworth Esqr
Supt Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Sir,
I have received your Letter of [the]
20th Instant enclosing the Receipt of Capt Danl Tilton for
three hundred & twenty Dollars which will be passed to y[our]
Credit on the Books of this Office.
I am Sir &c.
Wm Simmons
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

