Certification of payment; detachment at Governors Island
Document 1797Certification that $376.97 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at Governors island, being the pay and subsistence of the commander, Capt. Frederick Frye, the pay, subsistence, and forage of Surgeon's Mate Samuel Osborne, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, for July 1797.
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Accountants Office
August 3d 1787
I certify that there is due to a Detachment of the Corps of Artificers & Engineers Stationed at Governors Island the sum of [underline: three hundred seventy six dollars &] [underline: ninety seven Cents] being for the Pay and Subsistence of Capt Frederick Frye commanding the said Detachment, the Pay, Subsistence & Forage of Samuel Storns Suterns Mate, and the Pay of the Non Commissioned Officers and Privates of the said Detachment for July 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor New York and to be by him paid to the said Capt Frye who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof.
Pay of the Army for 1797 329.30
Subsistence of Officers & 41.67
Forage &c 6.—
Dollars 376 97
Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War Actt
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Accountants Office
August 3d 1787
I certify that there is due to Lieut John S Heele the sum of [underline: forty one dollars and fifty cents] being for balance of his account for Pay of Sergeant George Haskell, Recruiting and Incidental and Contingent expenses which sum is payable to Saml Lewis Clark in the War Office, to be by him transmitted to the said Lieutt Heele at Carlisle.
[145? Bounty — 37
50 Commission
41.?? Clothing] Wm Simmons
The Secy of War Actt
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $376.97 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at Governors island, being the pay and subsistence of the commander, Capt. Frederick Frye, the pay, subsistence, and forage of Surgeon's Mate Samuel Osborne, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, for July 1797.
Date
08/03/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797080321252
Page start
7
Note
Account of Artillerists and Engineers at Governors Island
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Surgeon's Mate Samuel Osborne
non commissioned officers
privates
Captain Frederick Frye
command
detachment
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
Nicholas Fish
Supervisor New York
officers
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Governors Island
New York
Notable items
pay
subsistence
forage

