Certification of payments due; compensation of C. P. Pourcheresse
Document 1797Certification that $90 is due Claude P. Pourcheresse, being his compensation as assistant storekeeper at Springfield Massachusetts from July through September 1797.
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Accountants Office
October 11th 1797
I certify that there is due to Edmund H. Quincy Superintendent of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth New Hampshire the sum of [underline: One Hundred dollars] being for his compensation from the 1 July to the 30 Septr 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to Joshua Wentworth Supervisor at Portsmouth to be by him paid to the said Quincy.
Dol 100. Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War Acctt
Accountants Office
October 11th 1797
I certify that there is due to C. J. Burcheroe the sum of [underline: Ninety dollars] being for his compensation as assistant Storekeeper at Springfield from the 1 July to the 30 Septr 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to Samuel Lewis Clerk in the War Office to the said Burcheroe.
Dol 90 Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War Acctt
Accountants Office
October 11th 1797
I certify that there is due to Cap. Griffith J. McRee of the Artillerists & Engineers the sum of [underline: fifteen dollars 33/] being for his subsistence for the month of September 1797 which amount is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York to be by him paid to the said Cap. McRee. ——
Dol 15½ Wm Simmons
The Secretary of War Acctt
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $90 is due Claude P. Pourcheresse, being his compensation as assistant storekeeper at Springfield Massachusetts from July through September 1797.
Date
10/11/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797101121255
Page start
35
Note
Account of C.P. Pourcheresse
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Samuel Lewis
clerk
Claude P. Pourcheresse
assistant storekeeper
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Springfield Armory
Springfield Massachusetts
Notable items
compensation
pay

