Salary of Caleb Gibbs, Clerk to the Naval Yard at Boston
Document 1797Certification that $187.50 is due Caleb Gibbs, Clerk to the Naval Yard at Boston, being his salary for April through June 1797.
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Accountants Office
July 6th 1797
I Certify that there is due to Edwards Miller Captain in the army of the United States the sum of Sixty eight Dollars and seventy five Cents being for pay of himself and the Recruits under his command Stationed at Middletown for the month of June 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to John Chester Supervisor Wethersfield, Connecticut, and to be by him paid to the said Captain Miller who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same.
[strikethrough: Put on] day of the army for 1797. Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War Acct
Accountants Office
July 5th 1797
I Certify that there is due to a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers Stationed at Governors Island the sum of Three hundred seventy two Dollars and eighty three cents being for the Pay and subsistence of Capt. Frederick Frye commanding the said detachment, the Subsistence & Forage of Samuel Osborne Surgeon Mate and the Pay of the non commissioned Officers and Privates of the said detachment for the month of June 1797 which sum as to be tran[smitted]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $187.50 is due Caleb Gibbs, Clerk to the Naval Yard at Boston, being his salary for April through June 1797.
Date
07/06/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1797070621455
Page start
434
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Caleb Gibbs
United States Navy
accountant
Secretary of War
clerk navy yard Boston
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Boston Massachusetts
Charlestown Massachusetts
Notable items
salary
frigate construction
USS Constitution

