Pay of John Steel, coxswain, & his men at Mud Island Fort
Document 1797Certification that $64 is due John Steel, Coxswain, and the men employed on board the public barge at Mud Island Fort, being his and their pay for May 1797.
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Accountants Office
May 27th 1797
I certify that there is due to George Ingersell Captain in the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers the sum of five hundred Seventy dollars and fifty nine Cents, being for Balance of his Pay & Subsistence to the 30th April 1797 inclusive, which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York and to be by him paid to the said Ingersell —
335.11 Pay of the Army for 1796
100. d. d. 1797
60.48 Subsistence for
Dols [undecipherable] 30 Wm Simmons
Acct.
The Secretary of War
Department of War
Accountants Office
May 30th [undecipherable]
I certify that there is due to James Tayler captain of cavalry the sum of Seven hundred and Twenty six dollars and Seventy six cents being for his Forage from [undecipherable] to June 4 for his Subsistence from the 1 July 1796 to the 31 day [undecipherable] 1797 inclusively —
Pay 280 }
Forage 8 } in 1796
Sub 82.50 }
Pay [undecipherable] }
Forage 30 } in 1797
Sub [undecipherable] }
Wm Simmons
Acct.
The Secy of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $64 is due John Steel, Coxswain, and the men employed on board the public barge at Mud Island Fort, being his and their pay for May 1797.
Date
06/01/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1797060121055
Page start
416
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
men
John Steel
John Steele
coxswain
accountant
attorney
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Mud Island Fort
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
public barge

