Request for Certificate
Document 1797Simmons requested certificate from Samuel Hodgdon for affirmation Kirkpatrick produced admissible vouchers for expenditure of $2,000.00 for issuing provisions to troops. $2,000.00 amount of Warrant No. 41 transmitted by Hodgdon to Kirkpatrick never settled, Simmons holds Kirkpatrick accountable until suitable vouchers are produced.
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=ing account will be reduced to Ninety four dollars which when you pay to Caleb Swan Esquire you will please take duplicate receipts, one to be forwarded to this Office to enable me to make the necessary entries to close your ac[count]
I am &c
Wm Simmons Acct
Nicholas Fish Esqr Department of War
Supervisor New York Accountants Office
September 29th 1797
Sir
I received your letter of the 27th inst. covering the receipt of Andrew Marschalk, Lt. for . . . . . . . . Drs 192. 24
Frederick Frye Capt . . . . . . . . . . . 360. 41
George Fleming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22. 21
ditto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 —
Nch. Freeman dt & Sempl. Paymaster . . . . 961 —
Andrew Marschalk Lt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 —
together Two Thousand thirty five Drs & eighty six Cents — Drs 2035 | 86
which amount will in due course be passed to the Credit of your account on the Books of this Office.
I am &c
Hon Kirkpatrick Esqr Department of War
late Commissary Accountants Office
Pittsburg September 29th 1797
Sir
I received your letter of the 24th Inst. and in consequence thereof I have made application to Samuel Hodgdon Esqr Superintendent of Military Stores for a certificate of your having produced to him admissible Vouchers for expenditure of Two thousand Dollars being amount of War[rant] No 41 received by S. Hodgdon and transmitted by him to you [on] your receipt 24th January 1795 fo[r] issuing provisions to the D[undecipherable] of the United States; enclosed you will receive a copy of his answer by which it appears, no settlement has ever taken place with him, you will therefore be held accountable at [this] Office till you produce either suitable Vouchers for the a[foresaid] sum.
I am &c
Wm Simmons Acct
Samuel Nicholson, Capt D.W. Accountants Offic[e]
of the Frigate building at Boston September 30th 1797
Sir
I received your letter of the 25 Inst. covering [an] account of pay and subsistence to this date amounting to Th[ree] Hundred thirty five Dollars and forty Cents which sum [you] will receive as usual from Jonathan Jackson Esqr Supe[rintendent] at Boston on giving him the necessary receipts.
I am &c
Wm Simmons Acct
Jonathan Jackson Esqr D.W. Accountants Office
Supervisor Boston September 30th 1797
Sir
The Treasurer of the United States will remit [to] the sum of Three Hundred thirty five Dollars and forty [Cents] which which you will please to pay to Samuel Nicholson [Capt] of the Frigate building at Boston taking the necessary rec[eipt] for the same, being for his pay and subsistence from the[undecipherable]
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Simmons requested certificate from Samuel Hodgdon for affirmation Kirkpatrick produced admissible vouchers for expenditure of $2,000.00 for issuing provisions to troops. $2,000.00 amount of Warrant No. 41 transmitted by Hodgdon to Kirkpatrick never settled, Simmons holds Kirkpatrick accountable until suitable vouchers are produced.
Date
09/29/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1797092921655
Page start
308
Notable persons
Abraham Kirkpatrick
William Simmons
Samuel Hodgdon
commissary Pittsburg
superintendent military stores
Notable locations
Pittsburg
Accountant's Office
Notable items
certificate
voucher
expenditures
receipt
settlement

