Pay of Captain Blackburn's Company Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point
Document 1796Simmons certifies that $165.11 is due such men of Captain Blackburn's Company of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers as arrived at West Point since Nov. 30, 1795, being their pay from their date of enlistment until that same date.
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Accountants Office
January 27th 1795
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] late Supervisor of the Destrickt of Mary land the Sum of Eighty four Dollars and Eighty Cents being the amount of his account of Commissions on receiving and paying Monies from the Department Between the 11th February 1793 & the 14 day of June 1795
William Simmons
[No 38
$84.80
The Sec'y of War]
Accountants Office
January 26th 1796
I Certify that there is due to such men of Capt. Abner [undecipherable] Company of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers as served at [undecipherable] and due to 30th November 1795 The Sum of two hundred and Sixty four Dollars and eleven Cents being the Sum from the Sales of their Subsistence to the [undecipherable] in the 1795 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor of the Revenue at New York who is to pay the sum to a Substitute Drummer temporary [undecipherable] at West Point who I hold accountable for his [undecipherable] application.
[$[undecipherable]
The Sec'y of War]
William Simmons
Accountants Office
January 20th 1798
I Certify that there is due to Abner [undecipherable] Company [undecipherable] of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers of the Garrison of West Point the Sum of Three [undecipherable] three hundred and Sixty three Dollars and [undecipherable: ninety] three Cents being the amount of their Pay and [undecipherable] Rations to the 31st December 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor [undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons certifies that $165.11 is due such men of Captain Blackburn's Company of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers as arrived at West Point since Nov. 30, 1795, being their pay from their date of enlistment until that same date.
Date
01/29/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1796012921555
Page start
184
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Captain Blackburn
Company
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
accountant
Secretary of War
Nicholas Fish
supervisor of Revenue
Nehemiah Freeman
temporary paymaster West Point
Notable locations
West Point
New York
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
enlistment

