Pay of Captain Rickard's recruits
Document 1796Notifies Captain Rickard that Mr. Schenck will provide him with funds for the pay of his recruits
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Four thousands one hundred forty seven Dollars & twenty eight Cents; which sum will be credited to your Credit as usual: — also your % for receiving & paying monies from this Dept from 1st July to 1st Octr 1796 which will be examined and you informed thereof.
you will receive from the Treasurer of the United States the 13 Dollars for the pay of Lieut William St Moor for Sept 1796 by this days Post — the Warrant being mislaid in the Treasurer's Office is the reason of your not receiving
Sample
W. Simmons
Acct
John M. Lowell Lieut & Adjutant Accountants Office
West Point Oct 12th 1796
New York
Sir
On examination of your recruiting account & expenses in marching your & Lieut Bt Hales Detachments from Boston to Rhode Island I find you have charged
15 Drs for bounty paid Henry Joseph Harby instead of Bt — diff — 1
also for your own subsistence & those there in pursuing deserters &c
from Boston to Rhode Island, for vouchers No 2244, inadmissible 45.76
Amount Drs 46.76
Charges of this kind made by any Officers have always been deemed inadmissible — The Balance due you is 37 Drs 22/100 — which will be paid to you or your order as you will be pleased to direct
Sample
W. Simmons
Acct
Nicholas Fish Esqr Accountants Office
Supervisor
New York
Sir
On examination of your account I find that receipts have not come forward for the following sums remitted you — If the receipts were forwarded they have either not come to hand or have been mislaid here — you will therefore please to send the duplicates to enable me to balance your account on the books here
Sample
W. Simmons
Acct
Warrants
No 957 — for Drs 377.22 Feby 5th 1796 for which your rect is begone;
it being for a like sum paid by me for expenses incurred by Henry [undecipherable]
at Seneca Indians while in New York:
1121 — for 168 Drs 21st April 1796 to be paid to J. U. Pivardie
1134 — for 73 — 4th May. 96 to be paid to Capt. Geo: Fleming.
1212 — for 176 — 21st do — do — to Horatio B. Dayton —
Amounting to Drs 793 22/100
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notifies Captain Rickard that Mr. Schenck will provide him with funds for the pay of his recruits
Date
10/06/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1796100621555
Page start
221
Notable persons
Captain William Rickard
William Simmons
Governor Blount
Mr. T.G.L. Schenck
recruits
men
Notable locations
Tarborough, North Carolina
Accountants Office

