Certification of payments due Lieutenant Peter Shoemaker
Document 1797Certification that $90 is due Lieutenant Peter Shoemaker, 2nd United States Regiment, being his pay from August through October 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 Commissioned 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 Freeman Temporary Pay Master at West Point who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same.
Wm Simmons
Acct
Pay of the Army 465.34
Subsistence of Officers 401.37
Forage & Stubs 36.
Dollars 1368.1
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
November 1st 1797
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] a Lieutenant in the United States 1st Regt the sum of Ninety Dollars being for his pay from 1st August to 28th Oct 1797 inclusive —
Wm Simmons
Pay of the Army for 1797 90 —
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $90 is due Lieutenant Peter Shoemaker, 2nd United States Regiment, being his pay from August through October 1797.
Date
11/01/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797110121155
Page start
42
Note
Account of Peter Shoemaker
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Lieutenant Peter Shoemaker
2nd United States Regiment
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay

