Certification of payments; account of Thomas Hughes
Document 1797Certification that $121.50 is due Thomas Hughes, being the amount of his account for iron work on the gun carriages at West Point and his expenses for going to Albany and back to mend gun carriages.
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Accountants Officee
December 14 1797
I Certify that there is due to Philip [undecipherable]
Lieutenant in the Corps of Artificers & Engineers the sum of twenty
Dollars & forty One cents, being for his pay for October & November and for
his Subsistance for July 1797 —
Pay of the Army 60.
Subsistance of Officer 10. 41
70 41
Wm Simmons
Acct
The Secretary of War
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Accountants Officee
December 15 1797
I Certify that there is due to A[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
the sum of One hundred twenty One dollars and fifty Cents being for
amount of his Account for Iron Work for the Gun carriages at West
Point and for expenses of going to Albany & returning [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable]
which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor New York
to be by him paid to George Fleming Ordnance man Military Store
keeper at West Point who is to be held accountable for the due
application of the same —
Wm Simmons
Acct
Iron & Cand. Exps 121. 50
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $121.50 is due Thomas Hughes, being the amount of his account for iron work on the gun carriages at West Point and his expenses for going to Albany and back to mend gun carriages.
Date
12/15/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797121521055
Page start
69
Note
Account of Thomas Hughes.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Thomas Hughes
accountant
Secretary of War
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
George Fleming
ordnance and military storekeeper at West Point
Notable locations
Accountants Office
West Point
Albany
New York
Notable items
iron work
gun carriages
expenses
mend gun carriages

