Pay & Forage of Surgeon's Mate George Balfour
Document 1797Certification that $72 is due George Balfour, Surgeon's Mate, being his pay and forage for July and August 1796 which sum is payable to his wife Elizabeth Balfour.
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[1801]
to the fortifications at South Carolina from 1st Oct to 1st Nov [undecipherable]
such sum is to be transmitted to Daniel Stevens leg[?] St[?] [undecipherable]
Dr 2550 Wm Simmons
No Jan 24th No Acct
Accountants Office
Jan [undecipherable] 1797
I certify that there is due [to] some certain Indian [undecipherable] the sum of Seventy two Dollars owing to him for forage for the months of July & Augt 1796 which sum is payable to Mr Ward [undecipherable] Esquire [undecipherable] of the said [John Suffern?]
[undecipherable] Wm Simmons
[undecipherable] Acct
No Jan 24th No
Accountants Office
Jan 9th 1797
I certify that there is due to Tobias [Lear?] [undecipherable] the sum of five hundred Dollars being for his [undecipherable] as Commandant of the Frigate building at Philadelphia from 1st [undecipherable] to 1st [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Dr 2930 Wm Simmons
No Jan [undecipherable] No Acct
Accountants Office
Jan 9th 1797
I certify that there is due to the Scouts of [Barcen?] County called into commission from [undecipherable] of the State of Kentucky for the protection of the frontiers of the said County the sum of two hundred and eighty nine dollars [undecipherable] being for their [undecipherable] between the 10th [undecipherable] of June 1793 which sum is payable to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the said County who is to be accountable for the before [undecipherable] sum
Dr 2460 [undecipherable] Wm Simmons
No Jan [undecipherable] No Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $72 is due George Balfour, Surgeon's Mate, being his pay and forage for July and August 1796 which sum is payable to his wife Elizabeth Balfour.
Date
01/06/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1797010621355
Page start
339
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
George Balfour, surgeon's mate
Elizabeth Balfour
Secretary of War
accountant
wife
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay

