Certification of payments due detachment at Governors Island
Document 1797Certification of payments; $362.32 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at Governors Island, being the pay and subsistence of the commander, Captain Frederick Frye, the pay, subsistence and forage of Surgeon's Mate Samuel Osborne, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, for September 1797.
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Accountants Office
September 30th 1797
I certify that there is due to Ferdinand L Claiborne Lieut
1 Regiment, the sum of [underline: One hundred seventeen dollars and sixty
Cents,] being for his pay and subsistence for the months of July, aug
and September 1797 which amount is to be transmitted to Edward
Carrington supervisor, Virginia, to be by him paid to the said Lieut
Claiborne—
Pay of the Army— 90—
Subsis of Officers— 27[undecipherable]
Dot 117[undecipherable]
The Secretary of War Wm Simmons
Acct
Accountants Office
October 3d 1797
I certify that there is due to John Leslie late a Sergeant in
the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers the sum of [underline: Nineteen Dollars and
two Cents] being for his pay as a Sergeant and private from the
1 May 1797 to the 24th July following the day of his discharge which
sum is payable to Margaret Leslie per order.
Dot 10 [undecipherable]
The Secretary of War Wm Simmons
Acct
Accountants Office
October 4th 1797
I certify that there is due to a detachment of the Corps
of Artillerists & Engineers stationed at Governors Island the sum
of [underline: two hundred sixty five dollars and thirty three cents] being
for the pay and subsistence of Captain Frederick Frye com-
manding the said detachment, the pay, subsistence, forage of
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $362.32 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at Governors Island, being the pay and subsistence of the commander, Captain Frederick Frye, the pay, subsistence and forage of Surgeon's Mate Samuel Osborne, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, for September 1797.
Date
10/04/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797100421055
Page start
30
Note
Account of Frederick Frye and detachment.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
detachment
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
commander
Captain Frederick Frye
Surgeon's Mate Samuel Osborne
non-commissioned officers
privates
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Governors Island
New York
Notable items
pay
subsistence

