Certification of payment; account of Lt. Steele
Document 1797Certification that $41.50 is due Lt. John Steele at Carlisle, being the balance of his account for the pay of Sgt. George Hackett and the recruiting and incidental and contingent expenses.
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Accountants Office
August 3d 1797
I certify that there is due to a Detachment of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers stationed at Governors Island the sum of three hundred seventy six dollars & ninety seven Cents, being for the Pay and Subsistence of Capt Frederick Frye commanding the said Detachment, the Pay, Subsistence & Forage of Samuel Oborn Surreons Mate, and the Pay of the Men 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 Acct
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Accountants Office
August 3d 1797
I Certify that there is due to Lieut John S Heile the sum of forty one dollars and fifty cents being for balance of his account for Pay of Sergeant George Hackell, Recruiting and Incidental and Contingent expences which sum is payable to Saml Lewis Clark in the War Office, to be by him transmitted to the said Lieutt Heile at Carlisle.
155.5 Bounty — 37
30 Commision
40 ½ Lodging Wm Simmons
The Secy of War Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $41.50 is due Lt. John Steele at Carlisle, being the balance of his account for the pay of Sgt. George Hackett and the recruiting and incidental and contingent expenses.
Date
08/05/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797080521053
Page start
7
Note
Account of John Steele to Pay George Hackett
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Samuel Lewis
Lieutenant John Steele Sergeant George Hackett
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Carlisle
Notable items
recruiting and incidental and contingent expenses

