Certification of payments; pay & subsistence of Captain DeButts
Document 1797Certification that $160.60 is due Henry DeButts, late captain in the 4th Regiment, being for his pay and subsistence from April 1 to December 31, 1797, the day his resignation was accepted.
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Accountants Office
December 8 1797
I Certify that there is due to Capt Edwd
Miller and the troops under his command stationed at Middletown and Considerable the sum of Seventy 8o Dollars being for his and their pay for November 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to John Chester Esqr Deputy at Weathersfield on by him paid to the above Capt Miller who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same —
W Simmons
Dollars 70 &o for the Army Acty
The Secretary of War.
Accountants Office
December 9 1797
I Certify that there is due to Henry [undecipherable]
Butle late Captain in the 4th Regiment the sum of Four hundred Sixty Dollars and thirty Cents being for his pay and subsistance from the 1st April to the No
December 1797 the day his resignation was accepted —
W Simmons
Pay of the Army 370 Acty
Subce of Officers 100 00
400 00 = 175
The Secretary of War.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $160.60 is due Henry DeButts, late captain in the 4th Regiment, being for his pay and subsistence from April 1 to December 31, 1797, the day his resignation was accepted.
Date
12/08/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797120921255
Page start
66
Note
Account of Henry Butts.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Captain Henry DeButts
4th Regiment
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
subsistence
resignation

