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 transmitted to the said Ensign Boote who is held accountable for the due application of the same
Wm Simmons
Acct
Dollars 48. 90
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
October 20 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, intitled "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
Acct
Pay of the Army 216.34
Subsistence of Officers 66.12
Dollars 282.46
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
October 20 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 Bowyer for July 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor, Richmond, Virginia to be by him paid to the said Captain Gibson who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same
Wm Simmons
Pay of the Army for 1797. 376 40/100 Dollars
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
October 23d 1797
I Certify that there is due to Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York the sum of Sixty Six Dollars and Sixty four Cents. being the amount of his account on receiving and paying monies from this department in the Quarter ending the 30 September 1797
Wm Simmons
Acct
Dollars 66.64
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
October 24 1797
I Certify that there is due to Daniel Stephens Supervisor at Charleston South Carolina the sum of Nine Dollars and forty four Cents being amount of his account of commissions on receiving and paying monies from this department in the Quarter ending the 30 September 1797
Wm Simmons
Acct
Dollars 9. 44
The Secretary of War
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

