Bounty Paid with Receipts Enclosed
Document 1797Bounty paid with receipts of enlistments, count of soldiers in reinlisted in the corps of artillerists of engineers enclosed. Dransy requested pay by way of the Paymaster of the garrison.
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West Point November 13th 1797
Sir.
I inclose you my account of Bounty paid, the receipts of Enlistments, of Soldier Reinlisted in the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers, which I will thank you to forward to me, by the way of the pay master of this Garrison, with the next pay Roll.
I am Respectfully Sir
your most obedient Servant
P.A. [undecipherable]
Lieutenant by. of
Artillerists & Engineers
William Simons Esqr
[Secretary of the War Department]
Philadelphia
Type
Letterbook
Description
Bounty paid with receipts of enlistments, count of soldiers in reinlisted in the corps of artillerists of engineers enclosed. Dransy requested pay by way of the Paymaster of the garrison.
Date
11/13/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Document number
1797111370001
Page start
1
Note
The name of the author is sometimes spelled "Dransey." Cited in Simmons to Dransy, 11/17/1797.
Notable persons
William Simmons
Peter Dransy
artillerists
engineers
paymaster
Notable locations
West Point
Notable items
receipts of enlistment