Pay of Soldiers
Document 1795Money to be delivered by Lieut. John McClallen. Request for additional money to pay bounty due troops.
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[undecipherable] of November, and another of the 2d of December, with enclosures. I shall pay attention to their contents.
Lieutenant John McClallen went from West Point on the 6th instant for New York, and will on his return, deliver to me the three thousand four hundred and forty three dollars, which you inform me are in the hands of Nicholas Fish for the pay to the 28th of October, and additional bounty due to the corps at this garrison. Mr McClalla is careful; but I should wish to be informed by you, at whose risk the money is supposed to be, when it has been paid out my [undecipherable] this report, but has not been received by me at West Point. My infirmity will seldom permit me to go for it myself.
By your list of Alterations in the pay rolls, last transmitted to you, there appears to me as due to this garrison, two thousand four hundred and forty four dollars and
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Money to be delivered by Lieut. John McClallen. Request for additional money to pay bounty due troops.
Date
12/17/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Document number
1795121770201
Page start
1
Notable persons
William Simmons
Nehemiah Freeman
recruits
Lieutenant John McClallen
troops
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
paymaster
accountant
Notable locations
West Point
New York
Notable items
money
pay rolls
bounty

