The Correct Way to Keep an Account
Document 1796Simmons' sends instructions on the proper method of keeping accounts
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paying the five hundred Dollars to Capt Ingersoll which I most
request may be done I am &c
William Simmons
Samuel Nicholson Capt Department of War
of the Frigate building Accountants Office
Boston April 11. 1796
Sir
I have received your letter of the [undecipherable] ult and agreeably to your Request you will receive from Nathaniel Gorham Esqr Supervisor Boston the sum of Three hundred thirty four Dollars and twenty Cents being for your pay and subsistence from the 1st Jany to the 31 March 1796 inclusive, for which sum you will please to sign duplicate Receipts
I am &c
William Simmons
Nathaniel Gorham Esqr Department of War
Supervisor Boston Accountants Office
April 11. 1796
Sir
The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Three hundred thirty four Dollars and twenty Cents being for the pay and subsistence of Samuel Nicholson Capt of the Frigate building at Boston, which sum you will please pay to him taking the necessary receipts
I am &c
William Simmons
Daniel Stevens Esqr Department of War
Supervisor Charleston Accountants Office
April 12. 1796
Sir
The Treasurer of the United States w
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons' sends instructions on the proper method of keeping accounts
Date
04/02/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Dept. of War Accountants Office
Document number
1796040221755
Page start
27
Notable persons
John Rivardi
William Simmons
Notable locations
West Point
Dept. of War Accountants Office

