Pay to a deranged officer
Document 1797Advises Fish that he will receive money from the Treasurer of the U. S. that he is to pay to Lieutenant Andrew Marschalk for his pay and subsistence owed to him as a deranged officer (demoted, apparently in an Army reorganization)
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Mr Edmund H. Quincy Accountants Office
Superintendant of the July 12th 1797
Navy yard at Portsmouth. N.H.
Sir
I received your letter of the 3d Inst. enclosing your account for Salary as superintendant of the Navy yard at Portsmouth from 1st April to 30th June 1797 inclusive, amounting to One hundred dollars which sum you will receive as usual from Joshua Wentworth Esqr Supervisor at Portsmouth, on giving him duplicate receipts for the same.
I am &c
Wm Simmons
Acct
Nicholas Fish Esqr Accountants Office
Supervisor July 12th 1797
New york
Sir
The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Four hundred twenty one dollars and eighty four Cents which you will [strikethrough: pla] please pay to Lieutenant Andrew Marschalk and take his duplicate receipts for the same, it being for Six months Pay & Subsistence allowed him as a deranged Officer by the Act of Congress of 5th March last.
I am &c
Wm Simmons
Act
[Page 144 YOQ01]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Advises Fish that he will receive money from the Treasurer of the U. S. that he is to pay to Lieutenant Andrew Marschalk for his pay and subsistence owed to him as a deranged officer (demoted, apparently in an Army reorganization)
Date
07/12/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1797071221555
Page start
144
Notable persons
Nicholas Fish
William Simmons
treasurer
deranged officer
Lieutenant Andrew Marschalk
Notable locations
New York
Accountant's Office
Notable items
receipts
pay
subsistence
Act of Congress

