Pay for acting as regimental surgeon
Document 1797Notification that his account for pay for acting as surgeon to a detachment of Army troops at Fort St. Tammany in Georgia has been approved and that he will receive his pay from John Habersham, collector of customs at Savannah.
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[Capt At Nicholl Accountants Office]
Fort St Tammany May 9th 1797
River St Mary, Georgia
Sir
Your claim for performing the duty of Surgeon to a Detatchment of Regular Troops at Fort St Tammany in the State of Georgia from the 15th October 1792 to the 31 December 1793 has been allowed you by the Secretary of War — amount 385 Dollars, which sum you will receive from John Habersham Esq Collector of the Customs Savannah on [undecipherable] duplicate Receipts for the same.
Samro.
Wm Simmons
Acct
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[Jonathan Jackson Esq Accountants Office]
Supervisor May 11th 1797
Massachusetts
Sir
The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred & forty nine Dollars & 50 cents which you will please to pay to Captain Richard H. Greaton at Boston and take his duplicate Receipts for the following sums to wit.
For 5350/100 being for his Pay & Subsistence for April 97
. 80 two months pay in advance
1b The amount of John Ramsay's pay for Januy February, march & April 1797
Samro. Wm Simmons Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notification that his account for pay for acting as surgeon to a detachment of Army troops at Fort St. Tammany in Georgia has been approved and that he will receive his pay from John Habersham, collector of customs at Savannah.
Date
05/09/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1797050921455
Page start
50
Notable persons
Captain A. Y. Nicholl
William Simmons
detachment army troops
John Habersham
collector customs Savannah
surgeon
secretary of war
Notable locations
Fort St. Tammany, Georgia
Accountant's Office
St. Marys River
Savannah
Notable items
receipt
claim

