Compensation of Claude P. Pourcheresse, Assistant Storekeeper at Springfield Massachusetts
Document 1797Certification that $90 is due Claude P. Pourcheresse, being his compensation as Assistant Storekeeper at Springfield Massachusetts from October through December 1796.
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Accountant's Office
January 2d 1797
I certify that there is due Col. John Hall the sum of Seventy three Dollars [undecipherable] being the balance of his account for defraying the Expenses of a party of Indians and their Interpreters from [undecipherable] to Philadelphia including his disbursements for the [undecipherable] as also the Inoculation [undecipherable] having been on the Night of the [undecipherable] of November 1796 and his own Expenses to this day the same having been allowed by the Secretary of War.
W.m Simmons
Acct.
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable] of War
Accountant's Office
January 2d 1797
I certify that there is due to John Hall Captain in the United States Infantry the sum of Eighty dollars being the balance of his pay from [undecipherable] to 31st Dec. 1796 inclusive.
W.m Simmons
Acct.
To [undecipherable] of War
Accountant's Office
January [undecipherable] 1797
I certify that there is due to [undecipherable] Frankford the sum of [underline: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] to his Contractors at the [undecipherable] Store kept at Springfield from [undecipherable] Oct to [undecipherable] Dec. 1796 inclusive which sum [undecipherable] transmitted by Samuel Lewis Sen. to the said Storekeeper at [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
W.m Simmons
Acct.
To [undecipherable] of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $90 is due Claude P. Pourcheresse, being his compensation as Assistant Storekeeper at Springfield Massachusetts from October through December 1796.
Date
01/25/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1797012521055
Page start
348
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Claude P. Pourcheresse
Secretary of War
accountant
Assistant Storekeeper
Samuel Lewis
Notable locations
Springfield Armory
Accountant's Office
Springfield Massachusetts
Notable items
pay
compensation

