Certification of payments; pay of Captain Richard Scott Blackburn & His Men
Document 1797Certification that $275.62 is due Captain Richard Scott Blackburn, Lieutenants John Saunders and James Triplett, and the non-commissioned officers and privates under the command of Blackburn, being his and their pay for September 1797.
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Accountants Office
Novr 1st 1797
I certify that there is due to Captain Richard Scott Blackburn, Lieutenant John Saunders & James Capsill and the non commissioned Officers and Privates Stationed at Fort Insfill under the command of the said Captain Blackburn, the Sum of Two Hundred Seventy five Dollars and sixty two Cents being for his and their pay for the month of September 1797 which amount is to be transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor Richmond to be by him paid to Nd Blackburn who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same.
Wm Simmons
Dollars 275.62
The Secretary of War
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Accountants Office
November 2d 1797
I Certify that there is due to Bvinus Hantyer, as Inspector of troops [undecipherable] the sum of One hundred and twenty two Dollars being for his compensation for the months of September and October 1797
Wm Simmons
Dollars 122.—
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $275.62 is due Captain Richard Scott Blackburn, Lieutenants John Saunders and James Triplett, and the non-commissioned officers and privates under the command of Blackburn, being his and their pay for September 1797.
Date
11/01/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797110121255
Page start
43
Note
Account of Richard Blackburn and detachment.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Edward Carrington
Supervisor Richmond
Captain Richard Scott Blackburn
Lieutenant John Saunders
Lieutenant James Triplett
non-commissioned officers
privates
command
Secretary of War
accountant
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Richmond
Virginia
Notable items
pay
subsistence

