Request for Pay with Forwarded Account
Document 1797Claghorne forwarded his accounts because he had not been paid and assumed Simmons had not received the accounts he mailed on July 3rd.
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[Docket: Letter Claghorn to [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] [undecipherable] July 31 [undecipherable] / recd 8 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / answered [undecipherable] &c / 1797]
[Label: Claghorns [undecipherable] / Constructor / 1797]
[Free 8]
Wm Simmons Esqr
[undecipherable] Accountant
Philadelphia
[seal]
Navy Yard Boston July 31st 1797
Sir the third of this month I enclosed to You my
Account for my last quarters pay, which became due
at that time, but having not as yet received an Order
for my pay, have reason to Suppose You did not
Receive my letter, That I have now forwarded My
Account for the Amt due at that time Your
directions that I may receive My money
Will oblige Your Obdt Servt
Wm Simmons Esqr George Claghorn
Boston July 31st 1797
United States to George Claghorn Dr
to My Salary as Constructor from the 31st of March
1797, to the 30th of June 1797 being one Quarter
Amt to five Hundred Dollars
Errors Excepted
George Claghorn
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Claghorne forwarded his accounts because he had not been paid and assumed Simmons had not received the accounts he mailed on July 3rd.
Date
07/31/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Navy Yard, Boston
Document number
1797073170201
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Simmons to Claghorne, 08/04/1797.
Notable persons
William Simmons
George Claghorne
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Navy Yard, Boston