Certification of payments; account of Captain John Webb
Document 1797Certification that $375 is due John F. Webb, late captain of a troop of dragoons, being the six months pay and subsistence allowed to deranged officers by the Act of Congress of March 3, 1797.
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Accountable for the due application of the Same.
Pay of the Army 1797. 30.14 Wm Simmons
Act
The Secretary of War
Department of War
Accountants Office
November 2d 1797
I certify that there is due to Robert Lewis the Sum of Eighteen Dollars and eighty One Cents being the balance due him for Abstract D. N 499 which Sum is payable to John Moylan Advance to the said Robert Lewis.
Pay of the Army 1791. 18.81 Wm Simmons
Act
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
November 2d 1797
I certify that there is due to John [undecipherable] late Captain of a troop of Dragoons the Sum of three hundred Seventy five dollars being for Six Months pay of [undecipherable: deranged] allow'd to [undecipherable: deranged] Officers by the act of Congress of the 3d March 1797 agreeable to a list of Officers [undecipherable: deranged] received from the Secretary of War which Sum is to be transmitted to John Habersham [undecipherable] in Georgia to be by him paid to Major Hugh M'Call who is to be held accountable for the due application of the Same.
Pay of the [undecipherable] Officers 240.
Subsistence of [undecipherable] 135.
Dollars 375
Wm Simmons
Act
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $375 is due John F. Webb, late captain of a troop of dragoons, being the six months pay and subsistence allowed to deranged officers by the Act of Congress of March 3, 1797.
Date
11/22/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797112221055
Page start
55
Note
Account of John F. Webb.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
John F. Webb
Captain of troop of Dragoons
Congress
Secretary of War
Accountant's Office
deranged officers
John Habersham Esquire
Ensign Hugh McCall
accountant
Secretary of War
John Moylan
assignee
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Philadelphia
Georgia
Notable items
pay of deranged officers
Act of Congress March 3, 1797
subsistence
pay

