Rolls examined and recruits to be paid
Document 1796Notifies Miller that his receipt, muster, and pay rolls were received, examined, and credited and that his recruits will be paid with the other troops at West Point
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is no new one at this Office notwithstanding it May Appear the contrary to you —
You was charged with the Recruiting Money — Received from Ensign Thompson because he charged it in his Account & sent forward vouchers to account for part of it in your name those vouchers have been admitted to your Credit & your Acct balanced agreeably thereto —— The premium of the Deserters — was allowed to you on a uniform rule which then prevailed in the Office to wit when deserters were long enough in service for their pay to cover the Premium it was allowed to the officers, and the premium Lowman was deducted from the Account because he was Returned unfit for Service.
From the foregoing you will not hesitate to pay the balance of your account to the paymaster Genl which after deducting from the former balance the amount of George Dougherty's bounty & Premium leaves Seventy Nine Dollars he owes the United States —
The Balance of Bounty due to yours & Ens Thompson Recruits will be paid by the pay Masters —
Jams &
Wm Simmons Constant Freeman Esq Department of War
Savannah Accountant's Office,
Georgia June 10. 1794—
Sir I have delivered the Estimates forwarded by you for Militia services to the Secretary of War; And have also rendered an Estimate of the pay, Subsistence & forage of the Army in your Quarter to the first of the present Month amounting to 1620 Drs which has been Requested from the Secretary of the Treasury, but it has as yet, not come to hand when it does the Money —
Wm Simmons Constant Freeman Esq Department of War
Savannah Accountant's Office,
Georgia June 10. 1794—
Sir I have delivered the Estimates forwarded by you for Militia services to the Secretary of War; And have also rendered an Estimate of the pay, Subsistence & forage of the Army in your Quarter to the first of the present Month amounting to 1620 Drs which has been Requested from the Secretary of the Treasury, but it has as yet, not come to hand when it does the Money —
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notifies Miller that his receipt, muster, and pay rolls were received, examined, and credited and that his recruits will be paid with the other troops at West Point
Date
06/09/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Dept. Accountants Office
Document number
1796060921255
Page start
92
Notable persons
Captain Edward Miller
William Simmons
recruits
Notable locations
West Point
War Dept. Accountants Office
New York
Notable items
receipt roll
muster
payroll

