Account of Joseph Cranch
Document 1797Certification that $584.55 is due Joseph Cranch, being the amount of his account for repairing and cleaning arms and finding materials for the same at West Point, New York, through April 1797.
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[39] in Capt Weak Springer's Company of Riflemen, the sum Seventeen Dollars &c being for his pay from 1 Jany 1795 the day he was last paid to be the Paymaster to the 1st May following the date of his discharge which sum is payable to James Dobbin Attorney.
21st [undecipherable] in 1795 Peter Hagner
R. Elk.
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
April 28th 1797
I certify that there is due to Captain William Eaton of the 4th Regiment and Georg Griger his Master One Hundred Seventy two Dollars and fifty Cents being for their pay from Jany to the 31 March 1797 also for Capt Eaton's Subsistence for the same Period which sum is to be transmitted to Jonathan Jackson Supervisor of Massachusetts & be paid to the same Captain Eaton
170 So Pay of Capt. Eaton
no 56 Subsistce of Do
17 [undecipherable] Griger Peter Hagner
179 [undecipherable] Dollars R. Elk.
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
April 30th 1797
I certify that there is due to Capt Cornelius Lyman the sum of Nineteen Dollars & [undecipherable] being the Balance of his Recruiting Account Contingencies, Pay & Subsistence to the 30th April 1797 inclusive.
[undecipherable] the Secretary of Army for 1797 Peter Hagner
The Secretary of War R. Elk.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $584.55 is due Joseph Cranch, being the amount of his account for repairing and cleaning arms and finding materials for the same at West Point, New York, through April 1797.
Date
05/01/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1797050121155
Page start
396
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Joseph Cranch
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
West Point
New York
Notable items
repairing and cleaning arms
pay
finding materials

