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.
No human transcription currently available for this document.
This transcription was generated by machine using Anthropic's Claude Code (a mix of sonnet and opus models). It may contain errors or inaccuracies. Please verify against the document image. Learn more about our generative AI methodology.
[38]
Accountants Office
October 16 1797
I Certify that there is due to David Patterson late a private in Captain John Smiths Company of Levies the Sum of fifteen Dollars and Seventy Seven cents being for balance of pay due him from the 2 April 1791 the date of his Enlistment to the 14 November 1791 the day he reenlisted abstract filed at this Office
Wm Simmons
Acctt
Dollars 15.77
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
October 16 1797
I Certify that there is due to Lieutenant John Steel 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 to Samuel Lewis Junr, Clerk in the War Office, to be by him transmitted to the said Lieutenant Steel who is held accountable for the due application of the same
Wm Simmons
Acctt
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 William R. Boote the Sum of Forty Eight Dollars & Ninety eight Cents being for their pay from the dates of Enlistment to the 1st October 1797 which amount is payable to [39] Samuel Lewis Junr Clerk in the War Office to be by him transmitted to the said Ensign Boote who is held accountable for the due application of the same
Wm Simmons
Acctt
Dollars 48.98
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
October 16 1797
I Certify that there is due to Richard Allison late Surgeon General the sum of Two hundred eighty two Dollars and forty Six Cents being for balance of his account current including Six Months pay and subsistence allowed by the Act of Congress of the 3d March 1797 entitled "an act to amend & repeal in part the Act entitled, an act to ascertain and fix the Military Establishment of the United States" to all Officers deranged under the Act to ascertain and fix the Military Establishment of the United States agreeably to a list of Officers deranged received from the Secretary of War which Sum is payable to Reuben Hunt Attorney to the said Allison
Wm Simmons
Acctt
Pay of the Army 216.34
Subsistence of Officers 66.12
Dollars 282.46
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
October 10 1797
I Certify that there is due to Captain Alexander Gibson, Ensign Henry Bowyer and a detachment of Recruits under the command of Captain Gibson stationed at Staunton the Sum of Three Hundred Seventy six Dollars & forty Cents, being for his and their pay for August & September 1797 including the pay of Ensign
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

