Certification of payment due; pay of Sergeant David Stanton
Document 1797Certification that $25.40 is due Sgt. David Stanton, late of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being his pay from May 1 to August 20, 1797, the day of his discharge.
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pay of Lieut Henry Muhlentere, Pay & Forage of John R. [undecipherable] Surgens mate Pay & the non Commissioned Officers & Privates of the said detachment for August 1797, which sum is payable to Lieut George R. Rest who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof.
Pay of the army for 1797 267½
Forage of Officers 0
Dt 200½ Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War acct
Accountants Office
September 9th 1797
I Certify that there is due to David Stanton late a Sargent in the corps of artillerists and Engineers the sum of [underline: twenty five dollars & fifty cents] being for his pay from [undecipherable] (the time he was last paid to by Captain Raliston) to the 28th August 1797 inclusive the day of his discharge.
Pay of the Army 1797 438[undecipherable] Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War acct
Accountants Office
September 11 1797
I Certify that there is due to a detachment of the United States 1st Regiment stationed at West Point for the service of the Ordnance Department the sum of [underline: seventy two dollars and twenty one cents] being for their pay for the month of August 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York to be by him paid to George Henning Military Storekeeper at that point who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof.
Wm Simmons
[undecipherable] acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $25.40 is due Sgt. David Stanton, late of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being his pay from May 1 to August 20, 1797, the day of his discharge.
Date
09/09/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797090921152
Page start
22
Note
Account of David Stanton
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Captain Kalteisen
Sgt. David Stanton
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
discharge

