Muster and pay rolls and claims and bounty
Document 1796Acknowledges receipt of muster and pay rolls of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point. Provides Freeman with a list of the claims due by name to the soldiers in Captain Staats Morris's company and a list of balances due by name to soldiers in the Corps for "additional bounty"
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Capt Richard H. Greaton
Boston
Accountants Office
Octr 26th 1796
Sir
I recd your letter of the 18th inst enclosing your account for pay & Subsistence for September 1796 which has been examined & amount to fifty three Dollars & 50/100 which sum you will receive from Jonathan Jackson Esqr Supt of Massachusetts on giving him duplicate receipts for the same.
As respects your Allowance of Wood, it is not settled at this Office.
I am &c.
your
W. Simmons
Acctt
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Jonathan Jackson Esqr
Supt Boston
Accountants Office
Octr 26th 1796
Sir
The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Fifty three Dollars & fifty Cents, which you will please to pay to Capt Richard H. Greaton at Boston, being for his pay & Subsistence for September 1796 & take his duplicate receipts for the same.
I am &c.
your
W. Simmons
Acctt
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Lieutt Nehemiah Freeman
Suptt Pay Mastr West Point
Accountants Office
Octr 29th 1796
Sir
I received your letter of the 2d Inst enclosing one to you from Capt Staats Morris on the subject of my dis-allowing ten Dollars of his Account charged for his Expenses while remaining in New York for the money of the Corps — In answer to which I have to observe that at the time the allowance of Ten Dollars was first granted, it was thought sufficient to defray the Expenses of Transportation from West Point to New York back, which was all that was contemplated. Nothing was then mentioned of the expense while in New York. Capt Morris having waited there a short time more than the Officers in that kind of Business, could not have authorized any additional charges. Conceiving the Ten Dollars as sufficiency, I cannot allow more; and as this sum is passed to your credit on the Books of this Office — The Account cannot be returned as it is a Voucher for the Entry, but enclose you a Copy of it —
I enclose you the account of Staats Moore for making a regimental Coat — It not being proper to be settled at this Office, having no head of expenditure on the Books, under which a charge of this kind would be proper.
P.S. You will please to pay Adjutant Smith I am &c.
the sum of Thirty eight Dollars [undecipherable] being the your
Balance of his account of Recruiting Contingencies, W. Simmons
for which please take his receipt. Acctt
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Isaac Craig Esqr
Pittsburg
Accountants Office
Octr 29th 1796
Sir
I received your letter of the 2d Inst — Lieutt [undecipherable] has not yet called at this Office for a Settlement — the Thirty Dollars are not yet passed to your credit.
The Account of [undecipherable] Jenkins will also remain unsettled until I find he has as much due to him as your advancement — in which case it will be passed to your credit.
The Surplus Money remaining in your hands after paying the troops for June & July, you will appropriate to paying them for subsequent months.
I am &c.
your
W. Simmons
Acctt
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Acknowledges receipt of muster and pay rolls of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point. Provides Freeman with a list of the claims due by name to the soldiers in Captain Staats Morris's company and a list of balances due by name to soldiers in the Corps for "additional bounty"
Date
10/20/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1796102021555
Page start
235
Notable persons
Nehemiah Freeman
William Simmons
Captain Lee
Captain Littlefield
Colonel Mentges
Captain Blackburn
Captain McRea
Captain Frye
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
Marmaduke Henlon
Michael Doughty
Stephen Freiker
Richard Sneed
Jacob Bedel
musician
private Stewart Moore
Private Thomas O'Brian
Sergeant Shannon
Captain McRea
John Budd
James Graham
Wilbert Lippencot
John Green
Thomas Mason
James Bree
George Brown
Jeremiah Lynch
Notable locations
West Point
Accountants Office
New York

