Certification of payments; account of Meriwether Lewis
Document 1797Certification that $291.08 is due Ensign Meriwether Lewis of the United States 1st Regiment, being the balance of his pay from January through November 1797 and his subsistence from November 1796 through November 1797. Balance to be transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor Richmond, to be paid by him to the said Ensign Lewis.
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Accountants Office
December 19 1797
I hertify that there is due to Jean Dulles late Temporary Provisions Mate to the Frigate United States the sum of fifty one Dollars & Ninety two Cents being balance of his pay & Subsistence from 2d September the date of his acceptance to the 14 of December 1797 inclusive the date of his resignation.
W Simmons Actt
By St Provision Navy
32 Mc Subsist or Clarers
1st 51. 91
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
December 19 1797
I hertify that there is due to Meriwether Sims Ensign in the United States 1st Regiment the sum of two hundred Ninety One dollars & eight Cents being for balance of his pay from 1t January and for his subsistence from 1 Novr 1795 to 30 November 1797 to 30 November 1797 inclusive which sum is to be transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor Richmond to be by him paid to the said Ensign Sims.
Pay & Subsistence for Ply W. . . W Simmons
Subsistence of 2 years Dift. 23. 22 Actt
do do 474. 100. 20
Dollars 291. 8
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $291.08 is due Ensign Meriwether Lewis of the United States 1st Regiment, being the balance of his pay from January through November 1797 and his subsistence from November 1796 through November 1797. Balance to be transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor Richmond, to be paid by him to the said Ensign Lewis.
Date
12/19/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797121921255
Page start
71
Note
Account of Meriwether Lewis.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Ensign Meriwether Lewis
Edward Carrington
United States 1st Regiment
Edward Carrington, Supervisor Richmond
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Richmond, Virginia
Notable items
pay
subsistence

