Recruiting money and receipts
Document 1797Requests more money for the recruiting service. Cover letter for receipts of persons listed. Cited in Simmons to Boote, 09/25/1797.
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New Brunswick
September 23rd 1797
Sir,
The money I recieved for the recruiting services having been expended, some time since, I will be particularly obliged to you to get a supply furnished me as soon as possible. I have written to the Secretary of War on the subject. I inclose u receipts for the money I have paid since my last communication, agreeably to subjoined list; and have the honor to be Sir,
your obedient
humble servant
Wm R. Booth
No List Drs Cts
32 - Sherd Cole - 3 — — ✓
33 - Thomas Hill 1 — —
34 - Simt Holliss - — 50 ✓
35 - Joseph Lucy — 50 ✓
36 - John Cole 2 — — ✓
37 - James Dunham 2 30 ✓
38 - Thomas Stewart 2 — — ✓
39 - John Mac 3 — —
40 & David Hallett 3 97 ✓
41 - Ira Rose 4 — —
Drs 21 . 73 ✓
William Simmons Esquire
Accountant to the
Department of War
[address leaf:]
[Free]
[Esquire]
William Simmons [undecipherable] the
Accountant of the
Department of War [undecipherable]
[Wm R. Booth, 1797
dated Sepr 23, 1797
Reed 25 do
answered —]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Requests more money for the recruiting service. Cover letter for receipts of persons listed. Cited in Simmons to Boote, 09/25/1797.
Date
09/23/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New Brunswick
Document number
1797092370001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Simmons to Boote, 09/25/1797.
Notable persons
William Simmons
William Rowland Boote
Cole
Hill
Hillis
Lacy
Dunham
Stewart
Aker
Rose
Halloke
Notable locations
Philadelphia
New Brunswick

