Certification of payments due; pay of Ensign Boote's Detachment
Document 1797Certification that $48.98 is due a detachment of recruits under the command of Ensign William R. Boote, being their pay from their dates of enlistment to October 1, 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 3 April 1794 the date of his enlistment to the 14 November 1794 the day he was [undecipherable] filed at this Office
Wm Simmons
Acct
Dolrs 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 one 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] Clerks 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
Acct
Dolrs 421.33
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 William R. [undecipherable] the Sum of Forty [undecipherable] Dollars & [undecipherable] Cents being for their pay from the date of Enlistment to the 1st October 1797, which Sum is payable to
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $48.98 is due a detachment of recruits under the command of Ensign William R. Boote, being their pay from their dates of enlistment to October 1, 1797.
Date
10/16/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797101621255
Page start
38
Note
Account of William R. Boote and detachment.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
accountant
Secretary of War
Ensign William R. Boote
recruits
command
detachment
Samuel Lewis
senior clerk
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
enlistment

