Pay of Private Christopher Sandiford, Indian captive
Document 1797Certification that $75 is due Christopher Sandiford, a private in Captain Cribb's late company of levies, being his pay for 1793 and 1794, part of the period he was in captivity with the savages, and which was short calculated in his account report.
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Nicholas Fish Esq: Supervisor of New York and ag him paid to Nehemiah Freeman Temporary Pay Master at West Point, who is to be accountable for the due application thereof.
Pay of the army 869 15 Subsist of Officers 234 56
Forage of Officers 35 3 In 1797 [undecipherable] 83 65-84
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Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War Acct
Accountants Office
April 17th 1797
I Certify that there is due to Edmund H. Daines, the sum of One hundred dollars, being for his compensation as Superintendant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1st January to 31 March 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to Joshua Wentworth Supervisor of New Hampshire.
$d 100.
Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War Acct
Accountants Office
April 18th 1797
I Certify that there is due to Samuel Wolcott late [undecipherable] in the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers [undecipherable] dollars one [undecipherable] three [undecipherable] being for his pay from 1st April 1797 inclusive the day of his discharge.
$d [undecipherable]
Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $75 is due Christopher Sandiford, a private in Captain Cribb's late company of levies, being his pay for 1793 and 1794, part of the period he was in captivity with the savages, and which was short calculated in his account report.
Date
04/24/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1797042421055
Page start
393
Notable persons
James McHenry
Peter Hagner
Indians
savages
prisoner
John Gibson
Robert Brotherton attorney
accountant
Secretary of War
Captain Cribb
company of levies
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
Indian captivity

