Instructions to pay Captain Turner
Document 1795Informs Gorham that the Treasurer will remit him the sum of 160 dollars for the pay of Capt. Edward Turner.
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Capt Edwd J. Turner.
Department of War
Accountants' Office
Novemr 27th [year undecipherable]
Boston
Sir
You will receive from N-thaniel Gorham Esqr Supervisor Massachusetts the sum of One hundred and Sixty Dollars being for your pay from 1st July to 31st October 179[undecipherable] inc. for which you will please to give him duplicate Receipts. —
Your Account for subsistence is Suspended for want of a Certificate from the Contractor certif-ying that you drew no rations for the time charg'd and also the Contract price thereof. —
I am &c
William Simm[ons]
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Department of War
Nathaniel Gorham Esqr. Accountants' Office
Supr. Massatts. November 27 [year undecipherable]
Sir
The Treasurer of the Massachusetts, will remit you the sum of One hundred and Sixty Dollars which you will please pay to Capt Edward J. Turner. being for his pay from 1st of July to 31st October 179[undecipherable] inc. and for which sum you will please to take his Receipts, one of which to be forwarded as usual.
I am
Sir Yours &c —
William Simm[ons]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Informs Gorham that the Treasurer will remit him the sum of 160 dollars for the pay of Capt. Edward Turner.
Date
11/27/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Accountant's Office
Document number
1795112721155
Page start
331
Notable persons
Nathaniel Gorham
William Simmons
[Samuel Meredith]
Captain Edward Turner
Treasurer
Notable locations
Massachusetts
War Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
receipts

