Pay for Captain of a Frigate
Document 1796Notifies Captain Sever that he will receive his salary as Captain of the Frigate building at Portsmouth from Joshua Wentworth, Supervisor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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M[r] Claude [undecipherable: Poucherejse]
Assistant Storekeeper
Springfield
Department of Wars
Accountants Office
May 18th 1794—
Sir
You will receive from Nathl Gorham —
Supervisor the sum of One hundred and twenty Dollars being
the amount of your Account for pay from the 1st Jan[uar]y. to the
30th April 1794 for which sum you will sign duplicate receipts
I am &c
Wm Simmons
Capt James Ivory
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Department of Wars
Accountants Office,
May 18th 1794—
Sir
I have received your letters of the 9th Inst
enclosing your Account for pay as Capt of the frigate building at
Portsmouth amounting to One thousand three hundred —
thirty Nine Dollars & twenty Cents which sum you will receive
from Joshua Wentworth Esqr Supervisor and for which please
sign duplicate receipts
I am &c
Wm Simmons
Joshua Wentworth Esqr
Supervisor
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Department of War
Accountants Office
May 18. 1794
Sir
The Treasurer of the United States will [undecipherable: remit to] —
You the sum of One thousand Three hundred thirty Nine Dollars and
twenty Cents which you will please pay to James Ivory at Portsmouth
being for his pay and subsistence as Capt of the Frigate building at
that place from the 1st of May 1795 to the 30th April 1796 for which
sum he will sign duplicate receipts
I am &c
Wm Simmons —
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notifies Captain Sever that he will receive his salary as Captain of the Frigate building at Portsmouth from Joshua Wentworth, Supervisor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Date
05/18/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Dept. of War Accounts Office
Document number
1796051822455
Page start
70
Notable persons
Captain James Sever
William Simmons
superintendent
supervisor
Joshua Wentworth
Notable locations
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Dept. of War Accounts Office
Notable items
frigate building
receipts
account
pay
frigate Congress


