Certification of payments due; pay of a Detachment at Governors Island
Document 1797Certification that $360.41 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Governors Island under the command of Capt. Frederick Frye, being the pay and subsistence of Capt. Frye, the pay, subsistence and forage of Surgeon's Mate Samuel Osborne, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, for August 1797.
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Accountants Office
September 5th 1797
I Certify that there is due to Capt Edward Miller and the Recruits under his command stationed at Middletown in the State of Connecticut the sum of [underline: Eighty eight dollars and fifty two cents] being as his and their pay for August 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to John Chester deputy at Weathersfield to be by him paid to the said Captain Miller who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof.
G/88 $52
The Secretary of War Wm Simmons
Acct
Accountants Office
September 5th 1797
I Certify that there is due to a Detachment of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers stationed at Governors Island the sum of [underline: Three Hundred sixty Dollars and forty one Cents] being for the pay and subsistence of Captain Frederick Frye commanding the said Detachment, the pay subsistence, and forage of Samuel Aberne Surgeon's Mate, and the pay of the non Commissioned Officers and privates of the said Detachment for the Month of August 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 319 $72
Subsce 41 $*
[strikethrough: Forg $
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360 $
The Secretary of War Wm Simmons
act
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $360.41 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Governors Island under the command of Capt. Frederick Frye, being the pay and subsistence of Capt. Frye, the pay, subsistence and forage of Surgeon's Mate Samuel Osborne, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, for August 1797.
Date
09/05/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797090521252
Page start
20
Note
Account of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
detachment
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
Captain Frederick Frye
Surgeon's Mate Samuel Osborne
non commissioned officers
privates
accountant
Secretary of War
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Notable locations
Governors Island
New York
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
subsistence
forage

