Account of Captain Henry DeButts
Document 1797Certification that $47 is due Captain Henry DeButts, being the balance arising from his contingent account for expenses traveling from Philadelphia to Detroit and back.
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Accountants Office
April 11th 1797
I Certify that there is due to George Gillaspey Surgeons Mate in the Legion of the United States the sum of Two hundred & fifty three Dollars &c being for his pay Subsistence and & Forage to 31 March 1797.
No 733 &c Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War Acct
Accountants Office
April 6th 179_
I Certify that there is due to Jonathan Shattuck private in Capt Eaton's Company and (wait) to Geo Gillaspey, Surgeons Mate, the sum of Twenty eight dollars; being for his pay from 1 September 1796, the time he was last paid to by the Pay Master, to the 31 March 179_ inclusive.
No 28. Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War Acct
Accountants Office
April 13th 1797
I Certify that there is due to the Corps of Artificers & Engineers Stationed at West Point the sum of Nine hundred & three Dollars &c being for the pay and Forage of the Commissure Officers and the pay of the Non Commission Officers & Privates for the month of February 1797, which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish, Supervisor of New York, and by him paid to Lieut Joseph [undecipherable] Acting Quarter Master, West Point, who
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $47 is due Captain Henry DeButts, being the balance arising from his contingent account for expenses traveling from Philadelphia to Detroit and back.
Date
04/13/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1797041321355
Page start
389
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Captain Henry DeButts
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Detroit
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
balance
contingent account
travel expenses

