Pay of the 1st Sub Legion
Document 1796Notifies Fish that he will receive funds from the U.S. Treasurer to be transferred to George Fleming at West Point for the pay of a detachment of the 1st Sub Legion
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will Remit you the sum of Five hundred eighty five Dollars and forty Nine Cents which you will please pay to Saml Dodge being the balance of his Account for Materials for the Barracks & mounting of Cannon at Whetstone Point and for his compensation from the 4th April to the 30th Octr 1794 for which sum he will sign duplicate Receipts
I am &c
Wm Simmons —
George Fleming Esqr Department of Wars
West Point, Accountants Office,
New York 21 June 1796 —
Sir
You will receive from Nicholas Fish Esqr Supervisor of New York the sum of Seventy one Dollars and six Cents for the pay of a Detachment of the first Sub Legion Stationed at West Point for the Service of the ordnance Department for their pay for the Month of May 1796 for which Sum you will sign duplicate Receipts to be accountable for the due application thereof
I am &c
Wm Simmons —
Nicholas Fish Esqr Department of Wars
Supr. New York Accountants Office,
Sir June 21 1796
The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Seventy one Dollars &c which you will please pay to George Fleming Esqr. West Point for the pay of a Detachment of the 1st Sublegion Stationed at that post for the Service of the Ordnance Department for the Month of May 1796 for which sum he will sign Duplicate receipts to be accountable for the due application thereof
I am &c
Wm Simmons —
Jams Meredith Esqr Accountants Office
Treasurer of the U.S. — 21 June 1796 —
Sir
Inclosed is a Receipt of John Habersham Collector of the Customs for Savannah in Georgia amounting to four Dollars and thirty seven Cents; also a Warrant for that sum being for the incidental and contingent expences of the War Department to which this receipt is to be annexed, agreeably to the request of the Comptroller of the Treasury
I am &c
Wm Simmons —
Isaac Craig Esqr Department of Wars
Pittsburg, Accountants Office,
Sir June 25. 1796
I received your letter of the 17 Inst. together with the Accompanying vouchers & Schedule of your Payments which will be placed under examination and the amount found due will be placed to your Credit on the Books of this office. — By this days Mail, you will receive from Saml Davis Clk in the War Office under cover in post Notes the sum of Three thousand three hundred and Ninety Dollars & 70/100 being the balance (after Deducting 630 Dollars which you supposedly would remain in your hands after paying the troops up to the 1st of March) of the Estimate I informed you of in my last letter
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notifies Fish that he will receive funds from the U.S. Treasurer to be transferred to George Fleming at West Point for the pay of a detachment of the 1st Sub Legion
Date
06/21/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Dept. of War Accountants Office
Document number
1796062121455
Page start
112
Notable persons
Nicholas Fish
William Simmons
supervisor New York
George Fleming
detachment 1st Sub Legion
ordnance department
Notable locations
New York
Dept. of War Accountants Office
West Point
Notable items
receipts


