Receipt and credit
Document 1797Cover letter for the receipt of Captain Staats Morris for money paid to him per Simmons' direction. Asks about a credit to his account
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Supervisor's Office
Baltimore Decr 10th 1795.
Sir
Inclosed you will find the receipt of Captain Isaac Morris for three hundred and ten dollars. I have only paid him agreeably to the directions of your letter dated the 7th instant which was duly received.
I presume that mine of the [undecipherable] apprizing you of my having remitted to the Treasurer the sum of 250 dollars paid me by Colo John Randall has been received and that I have the necessary credit therefor on the Books of your Office.
I am respectfully
Sir Your most Obedt Servant
John [undecipherable: Hilk?]
Supervisor &c &c
[Wm Simmons Esqre
Accountant for the Department of War]
[Baltimore 1795
John [undecipherable: Hilk?]
Decr 21. Dupt
ansd Jany 2. a.c.]
[Supervisor's Office
@ Maryland]
[Alt Er —]
[William Simmons Esqre
Accountant for the
Department of War]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Cover letter for the receipt of Captain Staats Morris for money paid to him per Simmons' direction. Asks about a credit to his account
Date
12/17/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Supervisor's Office, Balt
Document number
1797121770001
Page start
1
Notable persons
William Simmons
John Kilty
John Randall
Notable locations
Supervisor's Office, Baltimore

