Pay of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers at West Point, New York
Document 1797Certification that $1217.34 is due the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point, New York, being the pay, subsistence, and forage of the commissioned officers, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, through December 1796.
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Accountants Office
Jany [undecipherable] 1797
Certify that there is due to the [undecipherable] of Followers and Expenses of that Post the sum of [undecipherable] hundred and seventeen dollars and [undecipherable] Nine Cents being for the Pay &c &c of the annexed [undecipherable] Officers, and for the Pay of the non commissioned Officers and Privates to the 31 December 1796 inclusive which sum is to be transmitted to the late [undecipherable] Sub Inspector of [undecipherable] to be by him paid to [undecipherable] Schimmels Freeman Temporary [undecipherable] who is to be accountable for the due application there —
of the army 222.[undecipherable] Wm Simmons
Dr 1217/00 [undecipherable] of officers 94.33
[undecipherable] of officers [undecipherable]
1217.34 Actt
The Sec of War
Accountants Office
Jany 17th 1797
Certify that there is due to Morris [undecipherable] Rodriguez Assistant Surgeon of the Garrison near Baltimore the sum of three hundred and [undecipherable: eighty] eight Dollars being for his Pay from the 1st [undecipherable] to the 31 December 1796 inclusive which sum is to be transmitted to John [undecipherable] Superintendent at Baltimore to be by him paid to the said Morris [undecipherable] Rodriguez
Wm Simmons
Actt
Dr 368
The Sec of War
Accountants Office
January 18th 1797
Certify that there is due to a detachment of the 1st Regiment stationed at that Post for the service of the Ordnance Department the sum of [undecipherable] forty Dollars and [undecipherable] Cents being for their Pay for the month of December 1796 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas [undecipherable] Sub [undecipherable]
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $1217.34 is due the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point, New York, being the pay, subsistence, and forage of the commissioned officers, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, through December 1796.
Date
01/17/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1797011721255
Page start
345
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Lieutenant Nehemiah Freeman
temporary paymaster
commissioned officers
non-commissioned officers
privates
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
West Point
New York
Notable items
pay
subsistence
forage

