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Document 1795Informs Quincy that he will receive the sum of 187 dollars from Joshua Wentworth.
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Mr James Hackett.
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Sir
Department of War
Accountants Office
January 14th 1795
Your letter of the 5 Instant I have received enclosing your account for Salary from 1st of October to the 31st of December 1795 inc. [strikethrough: clusive] [strikethrough: amounting] amounting to 500 Dollars which sum you will receive from Joshua Wentworth Esq. Sup.t of New Hampshire and for which sum you will give him duplicate receipts.
I am Sir Yc.
William Simmons
Mr Edmund H. Quincy.
Portsmouth NewHamps.e
Department of War —
Accountants Office —
January 14th 1795
Sir
Your letter of the 5 Instant enclosing your account for Salary up to the 31st December 1795 I have received amounting to 187 [undecipherable] Dollars which sum you will receive from Joshua Wentworth Esq. Sup.t of New Hampshire and for which you will give him duplicate Receipts.
I am Sir Yc.
William Simmons
Daniel Stevens Esqr.
Sup.t Charleston
Department of War —
Accountants Office —
Januy 14th 1795
Sir
The Treasurer of the U. States will remit you the [strikethrough: the] sum of Twenty two Thousand five hundred [undecipherable] dollars and nine Cents being an account of the pay of the Georgia Militia, which sum you will hold Subject to the orders of Const. Freeman an Esq. Agent of the War Departmt and for which you will take [strikethrough: take] his receipts to be accountable for the due application thereof I am Sir
William Simm[ons]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Informs Quincy that he will receive the sum of 187 dollars from Joshua Wentworth.
Date
01/14/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Accountant's Office
Document number
1796011421655
Page start
391
Notable persons
Edmund Quincy
William Simmons
Joshua Wentworth
Notable locations
Porstmouth, New Hampshire
War Accountant's Office
Notable items
salary
duplicate receipts

