William Polk's compensation
Document 1796William Polk is to transmit his account for compensation for acting as War Department agent to the War Dept. Accountant's office.
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[Mr Edmund H Quincy
Clerk of Navy Yard
Portsmouth
New Hampshire]
Department of War
Accountants Office
July 12th 1796
Sir
I received your letter of the 4th Instant enclosing your account for salary from 1st April to 30th June 1796 & Samuel Larkins 7/0 for Stationary, amounting in the whole to two hundred & three dollars ninety cents which sum you will receive from Joshua Wentworth Esqr Supervisor Portsmouth & for which you will give him duplicate receipts.
Samd.
In absence of the Accountant
Peter Hagner,
Princl Clk.
[Joshua Wentworth Esqr
Supervisor Portsmouth
New Hampshire]
Department of War
Accountants Office
July 12th 1796
Sir
The Treasurer will remit you the sum of two hundred and three Dollars & ninety cents which you will please to pay to Edmund H Quincy Clerk of the Navy Yard Portsmouth being for his Salary from 1st April 1796 inclusive and to 30th June for stationary purchased, for which sum please to take a duplicate receipts.
Samd.
In absence of the Accountant
Peter Hagner
Princl Clk.
A C.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
William Polk is to transmit his account for compensation for acting as War Department agent to the War Dept. Accountant's office.
Date
07/08/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Dept. of War Accountatns Office
Document number
1796070821255
Page start
131
Notable persons
William Polk
Peter Hagner
supervisor North Carolina
accountant
secretary of war
Notable locations
North Carolina
Dept. of War Accountants Office
Notable items
compensation
monies

