Credit to Fish's account
Document 1796Acknowledges receipt of two receipts that will be credited on the books of the War Department accountants office.
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men for April & August & other for July & August: I have to request you will explain in what manner this pay has been remitted in the preceding months. In the pay Roll the enlistment of several are [blank], a list is inclosed of the time they enlisted for your government and that it may be inserted in the next pay Roll. Agreeably to your request I have forwarded you blank recpt Rolls. I am &c.
Wm Simmons
Accountants Office
Capt William Littlefields
in the corps of A.S.G. Albany
Sir!
I have received your letter of the 20th inst: and noted the contents agreeably to your request. I have transmitted your pay for the month of August to the pay Master at West Point & shall forward the pay for September & October to him likewise as it becomes due.
I have transmitted the pay of the Detachment under your command to Lt Manning J Pitcher: having made out the Pay Roll of the Infantry and about to transmit the amount concluded it most advisable to include the Artillery and place the amount in his hands. I am &c.
Wm Simmons
Accountants Office
Septr 25th 1796
C S Pourcheraise
Springfield
Sir!
I received your letter of the 22d inst: enclosing your account for compensation as Assistant Store keeper from 1st May to 30th September 1796 inclusive amounting to one hundred & fifty Dollars which sum you will receive from Jonathan Jackson Esqr Supervisor Boston, on giving him duplicate receipts for the same. I am &c.
Wm Simmons
Accountants Office
Septr 27th 1796
Jonathan Jackson Esqr
Supervisor Boston
Sir!
The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of one hundred & fifty Dollars which you will please to pay to C S Pourcheraise Assistant Storekeeper at Springfield being for his compensation from 1st May to 30th September 1796 inclusive and take his duplicate receipts for the same. I am &c.
Wm Simmens
&c.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Acknowledges receipt of two receipts that will be credited on the books of the War Department accountants office.
Date
09/22/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1796092221155
Page start
202
Notable persons
Nicholas Fish
William Simmons
Lieutenant William Willson
Major John J. U. Rivardi
supervisor New York
Notable locations
New York
Accountants Office
Notable items
credit
books
receipt

