Captain Silas Talbot's pay
Document 1796Notifies Navy Captain Talbot that he will receive his pay from Nicholas Fish.
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Joshua Wentworth Esqr
Supervisory New Hampshire
Accountants Office
July 6. 1796—
Sir
I have to acknowledge the rect of your letters of the 25th ulc and have to inform you that I have never heard from Capt Titton since I wrote to you enclosing the letters for him, and he has not remitted the balance of his Account to the Treasury as I requested him to do — You will please therefore apply to him again for the amount, and remit it as directed in said letters —
I am &c
in the absence of the Accot
Peter Hagner Pr Clerke
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George Flemming, Esqr
West point
Accountants Office
July 6. 1796
Sir
I have in the absence of the Accot to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st Inst Together with the package of vouchers accompanying it, they will be placed under examination and of the result you will be duly informed.
I return you the account of George Sarrat for making an Artillerists Coat — not conceiving it proper for you to make the payment — If the Soldier was entitled to it it is an Item of expenditures not proper to be settled here and consequently should not be paid out of any monies advanced from this Department — The Soldier is agreeably to law entitled to a certain proportion of Cloathing, when this is exceeded in any manner the Soldier & not the public sho[uld] pay the expence
I am &c
Peter Hagner p Clk
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notifies Navy Captain Talbot that he will receive his pay from Nicholas Fish.
Date
06/30/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1796063022055
Page start
122
Notable persons
Captain Silas Talbot
William Simmons
Navy
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Notable locations
New York
Accountants Office
Notable items
subsistence
receipts

