Pay for acting as agent
Document 1797Notification that his quarterly account is approved and that he will be paid for acting as an agent for the War Department. Cited in Stevens to Simmons, 05/26/1797.
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propriety be paid to Mr Cranch, which is due to lieut Cud=
=worth without letters of Administration being produ=
=ced and a Power of Attorney from the Administrator.
I am &c.
oWm Simmons
Acct.
Nicholas Fish Esqr. Accountants Office
Supervisor May 2nd 1797
New York ✓
Sir
I received your letter of the 29th Ultimo, enclosing the receipts of Lieutt Nehemiah Freeman one for Nine hundred & three dollars 70/100, the other for Nine hundred & eighty seven Dollars 70/100 ma=king together the sum of Eighteen hundred and Ninety dollars & 70/100 differing from your sum total one dollar.
I am Sir &c.
oWm Simmons
Acct.
Daniel Stevens Esqr Accountants Office
Supervisor May 3rd 1797
Charleston S. Carolina
Sir
I received your letter of the 12th ulto. enclosing your account for receiving and paying monies from this Department in the quarter ending the 31st March 1797 amounting to forty eight dollars and Ninety Cents which sum you will receive as usual from the Treasurer of the United States.
I am Sir &c.
oWm Simmons
Acct.
Mr George Fleming Accountants Office
West Point May 3rd 1797
New York ✓
Sir
I received your letter of the 27th ulto. enclosing the Receipt Roll of the Ordnance Detach=ment for January 1797 amounting to Twenty five dollars & 81/100; also Lt Nehemiah Freeman's Rect for 51 dollars.
The former sum, say, 25 81/100 dollars, will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office.
I am Sir &c.
P.S. you have not been charged Wm Simmons
with the 51 dollars paid to Lt Freeman. Acct.
Jonathan Jackson Esqr Accountants Office
Supervisor, Massachusetts May 3rd 1797
Sir ✓
You will receive from the Treasurer of the United States the sum of Three Hundred & fifty dollars on account of the Pay of Major Thomas Hunt Watertown, which sum you will please to pay him taking his receipt to be accountable. I am Sir &c.
William Simmons
acct.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notification that his quarterly account is approved and that he will be paid for acting as an agent for the War Department. Cited in Stevens to Simmons, 05/26/1797.
Date
05/03/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1797050321255
Page start
30
Note
Cited in Stevens to Simmons, 05/26/1797.
Notable persons
Daniel Stevens
William Simmons
supervisor Charleston South Carolina
treasurer
agent War Department
Notable locations
Charleston, South Carolina
Accountant's Office
Notable items
account
monies

