[David Ames / January 1795 / Enclosing monthly Return / Pay Roly / request 1837 Dolls] [Honourable Secretary at War / Philadelphia] Springfield January 1. 1795 Sir Inclosed you will please to receive a return of articles received expended and on hand for December, likewise a pay roll and Muster roll & estimate for the same month. If it is your pleasure that I should settle my Accounts for November & December so as to begin the new year Quarterly, with that you would please to Send me one thousand Eight hundred & thirty seven dollars agreeable to the inclosed estimate that I may be able to due it on the Receipt of the money. I have received no answer to my letter of the 7 of December which was wrote in answer to yours of the 27 of November, and wish you would please to inform how you would have me contract with the Men in future. you will see in mine of the 1 Ultimo that I agree with you respecting the method of doing the work, and as Som of the Mens times are now out, it is necessary to be informed of your pleasure as Soon as posable— likewise on the Subject of getting part of the work don on contract out of the Shop, and I have no doubt Som of it will com lower in that way than it can at present be made in the Shop— an Experiment will easley determines it and without any hazard— P.S. we have had three I am Musters a day the whole of Sir the last month— most devotedly your obedient and very humble Servant David Ames Honourable Secretary at War [Muster role for / Dec. 1795 / Muster roll for Decm...] Muster roll of parsons employed at the United States armory at Springfield State of Massachusetts in the Month of December 1795 under the Superintendancy of David Ames David Ames Benjamin Popkins Robert Orr Stephen Popkins David Bassett Luke Perkins Alexander Crawford Elisha Shaw Thomas Dale William Torrance Robert M^c Clench James Washborn John Mitchell Daniel Pettebone John Munrow Levi Pettebone Jacob Mitchell Jonathan Packard J. Oliver Newton Epheram Packard Montgomery Orr Solomon Chapin Naph Newcomb Abbigail Caswell cook I certify that I have mustered the above parsons this day and that all of them have ben employed the month past as stated in the annexed pay roll. John Bryant D. C. M. Stous [Estimate, Dec. 1795 / changing arrum short / rec. on Estimate for / Nov. 1795 / $1537 54/100 / Estimate] Estimate of expenditures on account of the United States, in aid, and on account of the Armourers employed at Springfield in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in making public Arms, from Decem^r 1. 95 to January the 1: 1796 Dollars Cents Due on the estimate for November . . . . . . . . . . [undecipherable: probable reading 1017] 66 Amount of pay roll for December . . . . . . . . . . 479 00 for two ton of Iron wanted . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 for clothing for apprentices Supplied & bedding &c . . . . 80 1037 54 [undecipherable] / pay roll Pay roll of Armourers under the direction of David Ames Sup^t at Springfield Massachusetts | Names | Where employed | Commencement of pay | Rating of pay | pay p^r month [days] | Time of pay Months Days | total amt of pay Dollars Cents | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | David Ames | Springfield | December 1795 | January 1. 1796 | 70 dollars | 1 | | 70 | | | Robert Orr | do | do | do | 50 | 1 | | 50 | | | David Bassett | do | do | do | 10 | 1 | | 10 | | | Alexander Crawford | do | do | do | 15 | 1 | | 15 | | | Thomas Dale | do | do | do | 10 | 1 | | 10 | | | Robert M^c Clench | do | do | do | 20 | 10 | | 11 | 12 | 97 | | John Mitchell | do | do | do | 10 | 1 | | 10 | | | John Munrow | do | do | do | 10 | 1 | | 10 | | | Jacob Mitchell | do | do | do | 20 | 1 | | 20 | | | Oliver Newton | do | do | do | 10 | 1 | | 10 | | | Montgomery Orr | do | do | do | 10 | 6 | | 20 | 13 | 63 | | Naph Newcomb | do | do | do | 10 | 1 | | 10 | | | Benjaman Popkins | do | do | do | 10 | 5 | | 21 | 14 | 19 | | Stephen Popkins | do | do | do | 20 | 1 | | 20 | | | Luke Perkins | do | do | do | 20 | 1 | | 20 | | | Elisha Shaw | do | do | do | 15 | 1 | | 15 | | | William Torrance | do | do | do | 15 | 1 | | 15 | | | James Washborn | do | do | do | 10 | 1 | | 10 | | | Solomon Chapin | do | do | do | 20 | 1 | | 20 | | | Levi Pettebone | do | do | do | 10 | 1 | | 10 | | | Daniel Pettebone | do | do | do | 10 | 11 | | 15 | 15 | 37 | | Jonathan Packard | do | do | do | 20 | 1 | | 20 | | | Epheram Packard | do | do | do | 10 | 3 | | 23 | 15 | 93 | | Abbigail Cassell Cook | do | do | do | 4 | 1 | | 4 | | | | | | | | | | 479 | 00 | Springfield January 1. 1796 The above is a true and impartial pay roll for the month of December David Ames Sup^t