Certification of payments due; pay of Capt. Gibson, Lt. Bowyer & Recruits
Document 1797Certification that $376.40 is due Ensign Henry Bowyer and Captain Alexander Gibson and the recruits under his command at Staunton, being his and their pay for August and September 1797 and including the pay of Ensign Bowyer for July 1797.
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Samuel Lewis Junr Clerk in the War Office to be by him hereafter to the said foreign Posts who is held accountable for the due application of the Same
11th commons
100s
Dollars 49. 91
The Secretary of War.
Accountants Office
October 10. 1797
I certify that there is due to Richard Allison, Late Surgeon General the sum of two hundred ninety two Dollars and, forty five Cents being for balance of his account current including one six Months pay and subsistence allowed by the Act of Congress of the 8.th March 1797 entitled "an act to revive & repair extend the Act entitled, an Act to ascertain and for the Military Establishment of the United States" to all Officers dismissed under the Act to ascertain and for the Military Establishment of the United States amenable to a list of Officers dismissed removed from the service. The which sum is payable to Fencher Hood attorney to the said Allison.
An Simmons
Audr
Pay of the Army — 214. 34
Subsistence of Officers — 66. 12
Dollars — 281. 46
The Secretary of War.
Accountants Office
October 10. 1797
I certify that there is due to Captain Alexander Jackson. Command Henry Beuger and a detachment aforesaid under the command of Captain Jackson stationed December the sum of the Hundred Seventy two Dollars & forty Cents being for his and their pay for August & September 1797 inclusing the pay of foreign
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $376.40 is due Ensign Henry Bowyer and Captain Alexander Gibson and the recruits under his command at Staunton, being his and their pay for August and September 1797 and including the pay of Ensign Bowyer for July 1797.
Date
10/20/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797102021155
Page start
39
Note
Account of Alexander Gibson and detachment.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Ensign Henry Bowyer
Captain Alexander Gibson
recruits
command
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Staunton
Virginia
Notable items
pay

