Payment for service
Document 1795Informs Capt. Turner that he will receive the sum of 160 dollars from Nathaniel Gorham in payment.
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Department of War
Capt. Edw.d D. Turner. Accountants' Office
Boston Novem.r 27th
Sir
You will receive from Nathaniel Gorham Esq.r Supervisor Massachusetts the sum of One hundred and Sixty Dollars being for your pay from 1st July to 31st October 1793 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 certifying that you drew no rations for the time charged and also the Contract price thereof. —
I am &c
William Simmo[ns]
Department of War
Nathaniel Gorham Esq.r Accountants' Office
Sup.r Massa.tts Novem.r 27th
Sir
The Treasurer of the Massachusetts States, will remit you the sum of One hundred and Sixty Dollars which you will please pay to Capt. Edward D. Turner. being for his pay from 1st of July to 31 October 1793 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 Simmo[ns]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Informs Capt. Turner that he will receive the sum of 160 dollars from Nathaniel Gorham in payment.
Date
11/27/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Accountant's Office
Document number
1795112721255
Page start
331
Notable persons
Edward Turner
William Simmons
Nathaniel Gorham
contractor
supervisor Massachusetts
accountant
Notable locations
Boston
War Department Accountant's Office
Massachusetts
Notable items
pay
suspended
receipts
subsistence
account
rations
contract price

