Credit to Sprig's account
Document 1797Acknowledges receipt of a receipt roll for the Ordnance Department at West Point that will be credited on the books of the War Department accountants office. Credit to account.
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amounts to [undecipherable] hundred fifty seven dollars &cts. [undecipherable] sum will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office
I am Sir &c.
Wm Simmons
Acct.
Fredk Sprig Accountants Office
Assistant Store keeper May 4th 1797
West Point
Sir
I received your letter of the 29th ulto enclosing the Receipt Roll of the Ordnance Department at West Point for February and March 1797, and after deducting the Pay of Asa Cummings discharged, amounts to Twenty four dollars, which sum will be entered to your Credit on the Books of this Office.
I am Sir &c.
Wm Simmons
Acct.
Samuel Meredith Esqr Department of War
Treasurer of the Accountants Office
United States May 5th 1797
Sir
Inclosed is a receipt of John Habersham collector of the Customs in the State of Georgia, amounting to fifty dollars, also a Warrant for that sum, being for the Incidental & Contingent expences of this Department, to which Warrant the receipt is to be anne[xed]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Acknowledges receipt of a receipt roll for the Ordnance Department at West Point that will be credited on the books of the War Department accountants office. Credit to account.
Date
05/04/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1797050421755
Page start
37
Notable persons
Frederick Sprig
William Simmons
assistant storekeeper
Asa Cummings
ordnance department
Spriggs
Notable locations
West Point
Accountant's Office
New York
Notable items
credit
receipt roll
books
pay

