Certification of payments; compensation of John Mackey for apprehending deserter
Document 1797Certification that ten dollars is due John Mackey for apprehending Ambrose McGowan, a deserter from Capt. Joseph Elliott's Company of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.
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Capt. Attoney to Rebecca Daniels, Widow of the said Jeremiah Daniels, deceased
Wm Simmons
A.C.
Pay of the Army for 1797 [undecipherable] pr Dolls
The Secretary of War
Department of War
Accountants Office
November [undecipherable] 1797
I Certify that there is due to David Hart late a private in Capt [undecipherable] Lymans Company the sum of twelve Dollars being for his pay from 1st September to 31st December 1794 being the Sum returned due him on a Settlement of Sd Capt Commandant
Dollars 12 Wm Simmons
A.C.
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
November [undecipherable] 1797
I Certify that there is due to John Barry Captain in the Navy of the United States the sum of two hundred Sixty nine dollars & [undecipherable] being for his pay and subsistence from 1st April to 30th September 1797 inclusive.
250 Pay of the Navy Wm Simmons
219 60 Subsis of the [undecipherable] A.C.
[undecipherable] 69 00
Accountants Office
November 4 1797
I Certify that there is due to John Mackey the sum of [undecipherable] Dollars for apprehending Antoine M'Gowan a Deserter from Capt Joseph [undecipherable] company, Corps of Artillerists & Engineers agreeable to a Certificate of Captain Donald G Mitchell which Sum is payable to John State per Cester
Dollars [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that ten dollars is due John Mackey for apprehending Ambrose McGowan, a deserter from Capt. Joseph Elliott's Company of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.
Date
11/17/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797111721255
Page start
53
Note
Account of John Mackey.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
John Mackey
Ambrose McGowan
Capt. Joseph Elliott
Company of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
Captain Donald Mitchell
John Steele
Accountant's Office
War Office
accountant
Secretary of War
deserter
Notable locations
Accountants Office
War Office
Philadelphia
Notable items
desertion
pay
apprehending deserters

