Certification of payments due detachment at West Point
Document 1797Certification that $1303.06 is due a detachment of the Artillerists and Engineers at West Point, being for the pay, subsistence, and forage of the commissioned officers and privates through September 1797.
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Accountants Office
November 1st 1797
I Certify that there is due to a detachment of the Artillerists & Engineers stationed at West Point the sum of One thousand three hundred and three Dollars & Six Cents being for the pay Subsistence & forage of the Commissisone Officers & Privates of the said detachment up to the 30th September 1797 inclusive, which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor New York & is to be by him paid to Nehemiah Hueman temporary Pay Master at West Point who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same.
Wm Simmons
Actt
Pay of the Army 465.34
Subsistence of Officers 401.37
Forage & Extra 30.—
Dollars 1368.1/
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
November 1st 1797
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] Lieutenant in the United States 1st Regt the sum of Seventy Dollars being for his hire from 1st August to 21 Oct: 1797 inclusive —
Wm Simmons
Pay of the Army for 1797 [undecipherable] —
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $1303.06 is due a detachment of the Artillerists and Engineers at West Point, being for the pay, subsistence, and forage of the commissioned officers and privates through September 1797.
Date
11/01/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797110121055
Page start
42
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Nehemiah Freeman
temporary paymaster West Point
detachment
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
New York
West Point
Notable items
pay
subsistence
forage

