Pourcheresse's pay
Document 1797Notification that his account for pay has been approved and that he will receive the same.
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[439] due application thereof. Sam vc.
Wm Simmons
Acct
Capt Fredk Frye Accountants Off[ice]
Governors Island, N York April 5th [179]
Sir
I received your letter of the 8 inst. enclosing the Muster & Pay Rolls of your Detachment for March 179[?], which have been examined, and after deducting therefrom the pay of [undecipherable], he having been paid at this Office, amounts to Three hundred & Forty six dollars, which sum you will receive from Nicho[las] Fish Esq. Supervisor, New York, as usual.
Sam vc.
Wm Simmons
Acct.
Nicholas Fish Esqr Accountants Office
Supert New York Sir April 5th 179[?]
The Treasurer of the United States will re[mit] you the sum of Three hundred & forty six dollars, which you will please to pay to Capt Fredk Frye at Governors Island, being for the pay of himself, Samuel Osborne Surgeons mate and the Detachment under his command for March 179[?], and take his duplicate for the due applications thereof. Sam vc.
Wm Simmons
Acct.
Capt John Wade Accountants Office
Knoxville, Tennessee April 5th 1797
Sir
I received your letter of 7th January enclo[sing] the Receipt Roll of payments made by you to Capt Gibson's Rec[eipts] and the receipt for the money paid to Col. Henley. — The for[mer] examination amounts to Four Hundred & Seventy seven [undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notification that his account for pay has been approved and that he will receive the same.
Date
03/29/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Dept. of War, Accountants Office
Document number
1797032921555
Page start
431
Notable persons
C.P. Pourcheresse
William Simmons
Samuel Lewis
assistant storekeeper
clerk
Notable locations
Dept. of War, Accountants Office
Springfield Massachusetts
Springfield Armory
Notable items
compensation
pay
voucher
remit
account

