[Cover/address page] [marginalia: Geo. Ingersoll / Received 22 Feb^ry / [undecipherable]] William Simmons Esquire Rec. at Office Philadelphia Boston Feb^ry 6. 1796 Sir When I was in Philadelphia last spring and made application to You in what manner I was to draw my Pay while on Furlough, You observed that It was necessary I should have a certificate from M^r Swan Pay Master to the Legion, I then at the time I was there wrote to M^r Swan requesting him to transmit a certificate to You of the time I was Paid up too, which I hope he attended to. Inclosed is an account against the United States for my Pay and Subsistance for the Year of 1795 and If Proper, should feel my self highly obligated to You Sir for an Order on M^r Gorham for the Amount & Amounts, If I am in an error as to the manner or mode, of drawing on the Office of Accounts for Pay and Subsistance due me, I will Thank You Sir to correct me and Put me in a way to do it with Propriety, If M^r Swan should be in Philap^a he can assure You of the truth of my acct or Captain [undecipherable] late P.M. to the 1^st Sub Legⁿ. Col^o Pickering Secretary of War at that time informed me I might have mony on account if I was in want of any, or if I should be in want while I was in Boston I might draw on You Sir, Your attention to this favour will very much Oblige Your Most Obed^t Servant Geo Ingersoll Capt. Artillery Engineers William Simmons Esquine [Enclosure docket: Capt. [undecipherable] drawing [undecipherable] from 1 Jan^y to 31 Dec^r [1795]] [marginalia: Sep. 27. [undecipherable]] the United States To Captain Geo Ingersoll D^r To my Pay as Captain of Artillery & Engineers at 40 D^ol. Dollars 0/Month from Jan^y 1 to Dec 31. 1795 } 480. To my Subsistance from 1 Jan^y to Dec 31. 1795 as Cap^t. of Artillery & Engineers as P Acc^t. } 218. 4 Boston February 10. 1796 D^ols. 698. 4 Errors excepted Geo Ingersoll Cap^t. Artily & Eng^rs [Enclosure docket: Certificate of the Contractor at Boston that Cap^t. Ingersold draws no Rations] I Certify that the Price of the Ration as established at this Place was Eighteen Cents from 1^st April to the 1 June, and from the first of June to the 1^st September was Twenty Cents & from the 1^st September 1795 to the Present Time at Twenty five Cents. and I Certify that Captain George Ingersold of the Corps of Artillery & Engineers has not drawn any Rations from me at any Time — Boston February 10. 1796 Isaiah Doane Contractor [Enclosure docket: Cap^t. Geo. Ingersold's account Subsistance from 1 Jan^y to 31 Dec^r [1795]] The United States To Captain George Ingersoll D^r Commencement Subsistance | Expiration Subsistance | N. Days | [Rations] | Totals Rations | Post where Due | [Price] | D^lrs | Cents Jan^y 1. 1795 | Mar^ch 31. 95 | 90 | 3 | 270 | [Fort] Hamilton | 14 2/9 | 38 | 40 Ap^l 1 at 95 | May 31. 95 | 61 | 3 | 183 | Boston | 18. | 32 | 94 June 1^st 95 | Aug^st 31. 95 | 92 | 3 | 276 | Boston | 20 | 55 | 20 Sep^t 1. 95 | Dec^r 31. 95 | 122 | 3 | 366 | Boston | 25 | 91 | 50 — | — | 365 | 3 | 1095 | — | | 218 | 4 I Certify that the Above is a true State of Subsistance due M^e from the United States on the 31 of December 1795 and that I have Recived no Compensation during the Above time Boston February 10^th 1796 — 218. D^ls errors excepted. Geo. Ingersoll Cap^t. Art^ly & Engi^rs