Receipts for Bounty Paid
Document 1797Simmons received fourteen duplicate receipts for bounty paid recruits. Total: $30.00. Simmons requests an annex of receipts, a request repeated, that are necessary to know what amount are received.
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Daniel Stevens Esq D. Mc Accountants Office
Supert Charleston S C October 4th 1797
Sir
I received your letter of the 18th ultimo with the receipt of Captain Michael Kalteisen for seven hundred Sixteen dollars and fifty four Cents which will be passed to the credit of your account on the Books of this Office. I am &c.
Wm Simmons Accts
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Lt Peter Shoemaker Accountants Office
Baltimore, Maryland October 4th 1797
Sir
I duly received your letter of the 30th ult: enclosing fourteen duplicate receipts for Bounty paid your Recruits amounting to thirty dollars which will be filed with those before received to be examined on settlement of your recruiting account.
In my letter you of the 13th ult: I requested you to annex a list of receipts forwarded, which I now repeat as it is necessary that a list should be filed with the receipts, to know to what amount are received —
I am &c.
Wm Simmons Accts
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons received fourteen duplicate receipts for bounty paid recruits. Total: $30.00. Simmons requests an annex of receipts, a request repeated, that are necessary to know what amount are received.
Date
10/04/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1797100421455
Page start
318
Notable persons
Lieutenant Peter Shoemaker
William Simmons
recruits
Notable locations
Baltimore, Maryland
Accountant's Office
Notable items
bounty
settlement
recruiting account
annex
receipts

