Certification of payments due; pay of Lieutenant Rowan & His Men
Document 1797Certification that $802.79 is due Lieutenant Robert Rowan and the detachment under his command at Fort Oswego, being his and their pay from January through June 1797.
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Accountants Office
September 2d 1797
I certify that there is due to John Steel Coxwain and the Crew of the Public Barge employed at Mud Island Fort the sum of Sixty four Dollars being for his [strikethrough: pay] and their pay for August 1797 which sum is payable to the said John Steel p order.
Incidt P Contt Exs for 97 64 Ds
The Secretary of War
Wm Simmons
Acct
Accountants Office
August 31st 1797 —
I certify that there is due to Capt James Bruff, Lieutt Nanning J. Vischer & John McClallon & Surgeons Mate John G. [undecipherable] the sum of four hundred twenty four dollars & thirty six Cents being for their subsistence to the 31st July 1797 inclusive which sum is payable to Samuel Lewis Clerk in the War Office to be by him transmitted to Nanning J. Vischer who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof.
Subsist of Officers for 9b. 31.11
Do . . . Do . . . 97. 303.25
Ors 424.36
Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War
Acct
Accountants Office
September 11th 1797
I certify that there is due to Lieutt Robert Rowan and the detachment under his command stationed at Fort Oswego the sum of Eight hundred & two dollars and Seventy nine Cents being for his and their pay from 1 January to 30 June 1797
inclusive which sum is payable to Samuel Lewis Clerk in the War Office to be by him remitted to the said Lieutt Rowan who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same.
Pay of the Army cy. Ds 502 78
The Secretary of War
Wm Simmons
Acct
Accountants Office
September 4th 1797
I Certify that there is due to Lieutt Nanning J. Vischer of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers the sum of Sixty dollars being for his pay for the months of July and August 1797 which sum is payable to Samuel Lewis Senr Clerk in the War Office to be by him remitted to the said Lieutt Vischer.
Ds 60
The Secretary of War
Wm Simmons
Acct
Accountants Office
September 5th 1797
I certify that there is due to a Detachment of Recruits stationed at Elliss Island near New York under the Command of Lieutenant Andrew Marschalk the sum of One hundred Ninety two Dollars and twenty four Cents being for their pay up to the 31st August 1797 which amount is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor New York & to be by him paid to the said Lieutenant and Mr Marschalk who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof.
Ors 24
192 100
The Secretary of War
Wm Simmons
Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $802.79 is due Lieutenant Robert Rowan and the detachment under his command at Fort Oswego, being his and their pay from January through June 1797.
Date
09/04/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797090421052
Page start
18
Note
Account of Robert Rowan and his detachment.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
detachment
command
accountant
Secretary of War
Lieutenant Robert Rowan
Notable locations
Fort Oswego
New York
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay

