Pay of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
Document 1796Notification to Fish that he will receive money that he is to transfer to Lieutenant Nehemiah Freeman at West Point for the pay and forage of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.
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Jonathan Jackson Esqr
Supt Boston
Accountants Office
Decr 26. 1796
Sir
The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Two hundred twenty three dollars &23/100 which sum you will please to pay to Mr James Innes, at Kingston, Massachusetts, being for his Pay & Subsistence, as Capt of the Frigate building at Portsmouth New Hampshire, from 1st May, to 30th June 1796, & take his duplicate receipts therefor.
You will be pleased on the rect thereof to forward the enclosed to him.
I am &c
Wm Simmons
Acct
Edward Carrington Esqr
Supt Richmond
Virginia
Accountants Office
Decr 27th 1796
Sir
I recd your letter of the 20th Inst enclosing Capt S. Blackburns rect for Two hundred & two Dollars 9595/100 which sum will be entered to your Credit on the Books of this Office.
I am &c
Wm Simmons
Acct
Mr Thomas Holt
New London — Virginia
Accountants Office
Decr 28th 1796
Sir
The Secretary of War has advanced you the sum of one thousand ninety three Dollars &33/100 which I have paid, agreeably to your Order, to Samuel Hodgdon Esqr, and for which you are held accountable for the due application thereof.
I am &c
Wm Simmons
Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notification to Fish that he will receive money that he is to transfer to Lieutenant Nehemiah Freeman at West Point for the pay and forage of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.
Date
12/20/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1796122021255
Page start
293
Notable persons
Nicholas Fish
William Simmons
Lieutenant Nehemiah Freeman
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
temporary paymaster
Notable locations
New York
Accountants Office
West Point
Notable items
pay
forage
receipts

