Account of Ingersoll, with details
Document 1796Enclosed accounts for February and March, requested a draft against Mr. Gorham to settle Ingersoll's accounts. Plans on leaving town for West Point, requests accounts be settled by that time as Ingersoll needs money to travel.
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Boston 9 April 25 1796
Sir
Inclosed is my account against the United States for the months of January [&] March. I will thank you for a draught on Mr Gorham for the amount, and for the balance of my acct transmitted to you in February last. I received from Mr Gorham [undecipherable] five hundred Dollars, which left a balance of one hundred twenty Dollrs [undecipherable] cent, in the amount [undecipherable] is [one] hundred Eighty Eight [and] Twenty five Cents making in the whole Three hundred [undecipherable] Dollars [and] Twenty nine Cents. I need not [undecipherable] you at the [undecipherable], when I [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] in a few days, [undecipherable] heartily [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with much [undecipherable].
Your Most obt Servt
[undecipherable: George Ingersoll]
[address panel: BOSTON; 20; William [undecipherable] Esqre / [undecipherable] the Office / Philadelphia]
[docket: Geo Ingersoll / Pay & subs / 188 25/100 / Enclosed in his letter of 25 Aprie]
Dr The United States
To Capt George Ingersoll
To my Pay as Captain of Artillery & Engineers from Jany 1. 795 to March 31. at 40 Dollrs Pr Month ————— Dlls. Cts 120.
To my subsistance as Capt for the Months of January February & March at 25 Cents Pr Ration ————— 68.25
Dls 188.25
Errors Excepted
George Ingersoll
Boston 9 April 22. 1796 Capt of Artily & Engineers
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Enclosed accounts for February and March, requested a draft against Mr. Gorham to settle Ingersoll's accounts. Plans on leaving town for West Point, requests accounts be settled by that time as Ingersoll needs money to travel.
Date
04/21/1796
Recipient
Sent from
Boston
Document number
1796042170201
Page start
1
Note
Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. Cited in Simmons to Ingersoll 04/30/1796.
Notable persons
William Simmons
George Ingersoll
Nathaniel Gorham
accountant
agent
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Boston
West Point
Notable items
account
pay
money
cash


