Payment of Soldier's Bounty Money
Document 1796Notifies Morris that Mr. Freeman has been directed to pay the bounty money owed to a soldier.
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Col. Ebenezer Sproat Department of War
Marietta NW T. Accountants Office,
April 16. 1796
Sir
I received your Letters of the 27 Ulto in Answer to which, I have to observe that the utmost dispatch is recommendable to have your Accounts and Vouchers transmitted to this office as it is a desirable thing to have all advances accounted for, as soon as possible.
The receipts of Major Craig which you enclosed me from Pittsburgh have been passed to your Credit on the Books of this office.
I am &c
William Simmons
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notifies Morris that Mr. Freeman has been directed to pay the bounty money owed to a soldier.
Date
04/16/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Dept. of War Accountants Office
Document number
1796041621255
Page start
43
Notable persons
Captain Staats Morris
William Simmons
soldier
paymaster
Nehemiah Freeman
Morrill
Notable locations
West Point
Dept. of War Accountants Office
New York
Notable items
unappropriated monies
bounty

