Certification of payments due; pay of Lt. Steele & Recruits
Document 1797Certification that $429.33 is due Lt. John Steele and the recruits under his command, being his pay for March through October 1797 and their pay from their dates of enlistment through October 1797.
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Accountants Office
October 16. 1797
I certify that there is due to Davis Patterson late a private in Captain John Smiths Company of [undecipherable] the sum of fifteen Dollars and Seventy seven cents being for Balance of pay due him from the 2 April [undecipherable] the date of his [undecipherable] to the 19 November [undecipherable] the day he was [undecipherable] filed at this Office.
Wm Simmons
Actt
Dollars 15.77
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
October 16. 1797
I Certify that there is due to Lieutenant [undecipherable] and the Recruits under his Command the Sum of Four hundred twenty nine Dollars and thirty three Cents being for his pay from the 1st March to the 1st October 1797 and for their pay from the dates of Enlistment to the same date, which sum is payable [undecipherable] Sums also [undecipherable] Clerk in the War Office, to be by him Transmitted to the said Lieutenant [undecipherable] who is held accountable for the due application of the same
Wm Simmons
Actt
Dollars 429.33
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
October 16. 1797
I certify that there is due to a detachment of recruits under the command of Ensign [undecipherable] B. Wade the sum of [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] Cents being for their pay from the date of Enlistment to the 1st October 1797 which [undecipherable] is payable to
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $429.33 is due Lt. John Steele and the recruits under his command, being his pay for March through October 1797 and their pay from their dates of enlistment through October 1797.
Date
10/16/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797101621155
Page start
38
Note
Account of John Steele and detachment.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Lieutenant John Steele
recruits
command
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
enlist

