Pay for Captain Samuel Nicholson
Document 1796Directs payment of salary for Captain Samuel Nicholson of the Navy frigate building at Boston. Advises Jackson of the government's policy for the quarterly compensation of federal supervisors for transacting War Department business.
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accordingly, Capt Littlefield, has written concerning the pay of a Sergeant of his Company for the Month of May being with held, on a reference to the pay Note I find the Money, has been forwarded to you with that of the Corps for that Month. You will please therefore have it rectified and the Money paid to him.
I am &c
Peter Hagner Pr Clk
Capt Wm Littlefield Accountants Office
West Point - - - July 20. 1794
Sir
I received your Letters of the 13th Inst and you will receive from Mr Fleming on application to him the sum of four Dollars for the Bounty you advanced to Jonathan Parsons for which you will give him your [undecipherable].
The pay for John Braysbridge Serjeant for the Month of May was forwarded with the other Money for the Corps for that Month and if not paid to him, it is a mistake. You will on application to Mr Fleming have it rectified.
I am &c
Peter Hagner Pr Clk
Jonathan Jackson Esqr Accountants Office
Supervisor Boston July 20. 1794
Sir
Having received Information that you are appointed Supervisor for the District of Boston, I hav[e] in the absence of the Accountant to advise you of a Remittance from the Treasurer of the United States to you of three hundred and thirty four Dollars and 22/100 to be by you paid to Capt — Samuel Nicholson of the Frigate building at Boston being for his Pay and Subsistence from 1st April to 30 June 1796 which sum you will accordingly pay him taking his Duplicate Receipts one of which you will please to forward to this Office,
As you may be unacquainted (from your late appointment) of the Compensation allowed to Supervisors for transacting business of this Nature for the War departments. I enclose you the Copy of a circular letter, dated 12 June 1794 to Supervisors on this subject for your Information. Your account for Compensation, agreeably to this letter, is to be forwarded once in each quarter to this office when received an examination will takes place and the amount Remitted to You.
I am respectfully &c
Peter Hagner Pr Clk
Capt Edwd Miller Accountants Office
Middletown July 20. 1796—
Connecticut
Sir—
The foregoing is Copy of My letter to you of the 6th Inst which has never been acknowledged to have been Recd by you. The Reason I conceive is that it was forwarded to West Point after you left there— I have now to acknowledge the Rect of your letter of the 17 Inst enclosing the Rect Note therein mentioned which after examination will be passed to your Credit—
Peter Hagner Pr Clk
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Directs payment of salary for Captain Samuel Nicholson of the Navy frigate building at Boston. Advises Jackson of the government's policy for the quarterly compensation of federal supervisors for transacting War Department business.
Date
07/20/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountatns Office
Document number
1796072021655
Page start
143
Note
Cited in Jackson to Simmons, 07/28/1796.
Notable persons
Jonathan Jackson
Peter Hagner
Captain Samuel Nicholson
supervisor Boston
clerk
Notable locations
Boston
Accountants Office
Notable items
navy frigate Constitution
pay
subsistence
receipts
compensation

