Vouchers Enclosed for Ordnance Department
Document 1796Vouchers for expenditures of Ordnance Department enclosed. Money due workmen. Bryant requests pay for himself and workmen, all of which are in great want of it.
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Springfield January 6 1796
Sir
Inclosed is the vouchers for the expenditures of the Ordnance department at this Post amounting to £58.3. 6.. 0.. I have Settled with the Workmen and there is due to them & others £140. 0.. 0.. to include my pay to the 1st of december 1795 there is due to me about 70 prios the Workmen are in greant want of there money as well as myself. I shall be greatly obliged to you to Sendit on as soon as may be convenient the accountant informs me that my accounts are not settled owing to Sundry imperfections and want of Vouchers. I wish to know what vouchers are wanting before I pay of the men —
I am Sir
your most obedient
Servant
John Bryant
D. C. N. Stores
[Honble Secretary
of War.]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Vouchers for expenditures of Ordnance Department enclosed. Money due workmen. Bryant requests pay for himself and workmen, all of which are in great want of it.
Date
01/06/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Springfield
Document number
1796010640001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Simmons to Bryant 02/25/1796
Notable persons
Timothy Pickering
John Bryant
Notable locations
Springfield