David Ames Account
Document 1796Acknowledges receipt of Ames' "accounts of expenditures" that will be examined
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Jonathan Jackson Esqr Accountants Office
Supt— Boston Jan 9th 1797
Sir
The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Five hundred Dollars, which you will please to pay to Mr George Claghorne, Naval Constructor, Boston, being for his Compensation from 1st Octr to 31st Dect 1796, and take his duplicate Receipts therefor.
I am &c
Wm Simmons
Acct
Capt R. H. Greaton Accountants Office
Boston Jan 9th 1797
Sir
I recd your Letter of the 2d Inst. with its enclosure; you will receive from Jonathan Jackson Esqr Supr of Massachusetts the sum of Seventy Dollars & sixty Cents, being the amount of your own & your servants Pay & Subsistence up to the 31st Dect 1796, for which you will please to sign duplicate Receipts.
I am &c
Wm Simmons
Acct
Jonathan Jackson Esqr Accountants Office
Supt— Massachusetts Jan 9th 1797
Sir
The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Seventy Dollars & Sixty Cents, of which Fifty eight Dollars and sixty Cents is for the Pay & Subsistence of Capt Richard H. Greaton of the 2d Sub Legion & for subsisting his Servant for the Month of Dec. 1796. The remaining Twelve Dollars is for the Pay of his Servant for the months of Octr Novr & Dect 1796; which sums you will please to pay the said Capt Greaton
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Acknowledges receipt of Ames' "accounts of expenditures" that will be examined
Date
12/31/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1796123121255
Page start
304
Notable persons
David Ames
William Simmons
Notable locations
Springfield, Massachusetts
Accountants Office
armory
Notable items
accounts
expenditures
examination

