Request for Account Information or Refund
Document 1797Simmons urgently requests account details regarding monies advanced to Lane by Pressley Nevill for pay of militia to suppress an insurrection in western counties of Pennsylvania. Money was advanced to Lane by warrants, who then paid the field and staff of Virginia regiment commanded by Lane. Simmons gave specific details on the appropriate manner to file account.
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ably to the Pay Rolls and accounts you were furnished with, also filing the receipts with the accounts, with corresponding numbers, which are to accompany the ac company the account current. A list of the sums unpaid accounting for any balance remaining in your hands una propriated is also to be furnished. —
Your particular attention is requested to these several objects as Col. Nevill the P.M.G. has been furnished with directions to attend to the final settlement of all accoun relative to that expedition and is to attend for that purpos accordingly on the 15th November next before which time I flatter myself your accounts & vouchers will be regularly furnished and examined in this Office and the amount paid by you passed to its proper account on the aforemen tioned abstract to be furnished to Congress.
I am &c.
Wm Simmons Acct
Mr Joseph Jane Accountants Office
late Lt. Col. of a Regt October 17th 1797
Virginia Militia
Sir Loudon County. Leesburg Post Office
In an abstract of monies advanced b Presley Nevill Paymaster General to the Militia called ou suppress an insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylva in the year 1794 you stand charged with money received from him pursuant to a warrant in your favor for the Pay of the Field Staff of Regiment of Virginia militia commanded by you employed in said expedition, and as no vouchers have hithe been transmitted to this Office to exonerate you from th
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons urgently requests account details regarding monies advanced to Lane by Pressley Nevill for pay of militia to suppress an insurrection in western counties of Pennsylvania. Money was advanced to Lane by warrants, who then paid the field and staff of Virginia regiment commanded by Lane. Simmons gave specific details on the appropriate manner to file account.
Date
10/17/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1797101723055
Page start
361
Notable persons
Lieutenant Colonel W. Joseph Lane
William Simmons
Presley Nevill
Virginia Militia
Paymaster General
Treasurer of United States
Congress
field staff
regiment
Notable locations
Loudoun County, Leesburg Post Office
Accountant's Office
Virginia
Notable items
abstract of monies
advance
insurrection
charge
money
warrant
pay
vouchers
refund
balance
resolution of congress
public monies
account

