Receipt requested and settlement of account
Document 1797Requests a receipt of William Boydstone for bounty paid by Captain Springer and requests that Springer provide his account and vouchers for monies received from the War Office so that Simmons can close his account
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the sums paid by you that the same may be passed to your Credit, and the Balance if any refunded to the Treasurer of the United States that your accounts may be closed on the Books of this Office — your attention to this object is particularly requested as early as may be — I am &c.
Wm Simmons
Acct
Ensign Richd Gray Accountants Office
Sir [strikethrough: Fort Massac] February 10th 1797 [strikethrough: Fort Adams]
You Stand charged on the Books of this Office with One Hundred and Sixty Dollars paid you by Captn Thomas Lewis & your Receipt dated 10th May 1792 being for the recruiting Service, for which sum you have rendered no account or Vouchers to this Office to liquidate the same, I therefore request you will loose no time but immediately send forward your account with the necessary Vouchers for the expenditures that I may be enabled to pass the same to the Credit of your account, & the Balance, if any, refund to the Treasurer of the United States, to close the same — your early attention to this object is particularly requested.
I am &c.
Wm Simmons
Acct.
Capt. John Bowyer Accountants Office —
Sir February 16th 1797
You Stand charged on the Books of this Office with two hundred and sixty dollars paid you by Captn Thomas Lewis & your Receipt dated 9th April 1792 being for the Recruiting Service for which sum you have rendered no account or Vouchers to this Office to liquidate
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Requests a receipt of William Boydstone for bounty paid by Captain Springer and requests that Springer provide his account and vouchers for monies received from the War Office so that Simmons can close his account
Date
02/06/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797020622455
Page start
353
Notable persons
Captain Uriah Springer
William Simmons
3rd United States Regiment
William Boydstone
treasurer
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Notable items
voucher
monies
account
bounty
books
balance

