Pay of a Detachment of the 1st Sub Legion
Document 1796Simmons certifies that $100.47 is due a Detachment of the 1st Sub Legion for the service of the Ordnance Department, being their pay for October and November 1796. Money transmitted to N. Fish and through him to G. Fleming.
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Accountants Office
Dec [undecipherable] 1796
Notify that there is due to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Alexander of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Legion the sum of [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] cents, being the balance of his Recruiting Account
Wm Simmons
$[undecipherable]
To the Sec of War Acct
Accountant's Office
Dec 13th 1796
Notify that there is due to a Detachment of the [undecipherable] Legion for the service of the Ordnance Department the sum of [undecipherable] hundred Dollars [undecipherable] being for three pay from 1st Octr to 30th Novr 1796 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Asst [undecipherable] New York and thence to George Manning at West Point who is to be accountable.
Wm Simmons
$100 [undecipherable]
To the Sec of War Acct
Accountant's Office
Dec 19th 1796
Notify that there is due to the Corps of Artificers & Engineers stationed at West Point the sum of three hundred [and] forty four Dollars and [undecipherable] being for their Pay & Forage for the month of November 1796, which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Asst [undecipherable] New York to be by him paid to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Pay Master, who is to be held accountable for the [undecipherable] appropriations thereof.
$[undecipherable] 44 [undecipherable]
To the Sec of War
Wm Simmons
Acct.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons certifies that $100.47 is due a Detachment of the 1st Sub Legion for the service of the Ordnance Department, being their pay for October and November 1796. Money transmitted to N. Fish and through him to G. Fleming.
Date
12/19/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1796121921055
Page start
327
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor
George Fleming
detachment
Ordnance Department
sub legion
detachment
1st Sub Legion
accountant
Supervisor New York
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
New York
Notable items
pay
money
payment
settlement of accounts
certification
disbursement

