Pay & Subsistence of Navy Captain James Sever
Document 1796Simmons certifies that $229.20 is due James Sever, Captain of the frigate building at Portsmouth New Hampshire, being his pay and subsistence for May and June 1796.
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Accountants Office
Dec 23d 1796
I certify that there is due to Capt. Peter Spruce Carson late, returne to the pay of the United States the sum of Fourteen Dollars being for his Subsistence from Philadelphia to Baltimore in passing William Donothan William Thomas [undecipherable] two days from road to fpt.
Wm Simmons
No [undecipherable]
The Sec. of War
Actt
Accountants Office
Dec 26 1796
I certify that there is due to Brig. Soldiers land Spruce, Major J. McLegun the sum of seventy nine Dollars 4/100 being for two Pay & Subsistence as Lieut for the months of November & December 1796 and for the subsistence of Eight Dollars a Soldier of the 4th United States Regiment to 31st December 1796 inclusive.
No 79 [undecipherable]
Wm Simmons
The Sec. of War
Actt
Accountants Office
Dec 28th 1796
I certify that there is due to John Shelton the sum of seven Dollars 4/100 being a balance of his account of Subsistence himself two Soldiers eight Horses from Philadelphia to New York & returning.
No [undecipherable]
Wm Simmons
The Sec.y of War
Actt
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons certifies that $229.20 is due James Sever, Captain of the frigate building at Portsmouth New Hampshire, being his pay and subsistence for May and June 1796.
Date
12/26/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1796122621455
Page start
330
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Captain James Sever
United States Navy
Jonathan Jackson Supervisor Boston
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Portsmouth New Hampshire
Boston Massachusetts
Notable items
pay
subsistence
Frigate construction

