Certification of payments; account of Lieutenant Purdy
Document 1797Certification that $438.59 is due Lt. Robert Purdy of the 4th Regiment, being the balance of his account for recruiting, contingent expenses, and his pay from April 1, and subsistence from January 1, through November 1797.
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Accountants Officee
December 4th 1797
I Certify that there is due to Robert
Purdy Lieutenant in the 4th Regiment the sum of four hundred thirty eight Dollars and fifty nine Cents, being the balance of his account of Recruiting, Contingent Expences and for his pay from 1st of April and Subsistence from 31st January to 30th November 1797 inclusively
Pay of the Army 110—
Subsistence 170. 29 } in 1797 Wm Simmons
Contingencies 90 Adt
Dollars 434. 59
The Secretary of War
Accountants Officee
December 6 1797
I Certify that there is due to Philip
Rodrigue Lieutenant in the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers the sum of seventy-seven Dollars and sixty Cents being for Bounty, Premium & Expences of Attorney for recruits enlisted by him for the service of the United States which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish, Supervisor of New York to be by him paid to the said Lieutenant Rodrigue
Dollars 77. 60 Wm Simmons
Adt
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $438.59 is due Lt. Robert Purdy of the 4th Regiment, being the balance of his account for recruiting, contingent expenses, and his pay from April 1, and subsistence from January 1, through November 1797.
Date
12/04/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797120421355
Page start
61
Note
Account of Robert Purdy .
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Lieutenant Robert Purdy
4th Regiment
men
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
account
contingent expenses
recruiting

