Certification of payments; pay & subsistence of Captain Thomas Truxton [Truxton]
Document 1797Certification that $670.80 is due Thomas Truxton [Truxtun], Captain of the Navy of the United States, being his pay and subsistence from July through December 1797.
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Accountants Office
December 23 1797
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] Mecklenburg of the troops of Artificers & Engineers the sum of [undecipherable] Dollars money for his pay for November & December 1797. [J.] Simmons Audt
60 Dollars pay of the Army.
The Secy of War.
Accountants Office
December 30 1797
I Certify that there is due to Thomas [undecipherable] in the Navy of the United States the sum of two hundred twenty dollars eighty cents being for his pay & Subsistence from 1 July to 31 December 1797 which sum is payable to Henry Burbridge for order. [J.] Simmons
Audt
1st 450 pay of the Navy
220 80 [undecipherable] the Navy
[Recd?] 220 80
The Secy of War.
Accountants Office
January 1, 1798
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] Samuel G. [undecipherable] Quartermaster of the [undecipherable] the sum of one hundred and [undecipherable] dollars and ninety six cents being balance of his account for payments made by him to the [undecipherable] for their [undecipherable] subsistence & forage from 1 January 1795 to 30 [undecipherable] 1795 including per own pay Subsistence & forage [undecipherable] subsistence to 31 December 1795. This [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] as per the [undecipherable] to October 1795.
[undecipherable] pay of the Army
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
[J.] Simmons Audt
The Secy of War.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $670.80 is due Thomas Truxton [Truxtun], Captain of the Navy of the United States, being his pay and subsistence from July through December 1797.
Date
12/30/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797123021055
Page start
76
Note
Account of Thomas Truxton.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Captain Thomas Truxtun
Captain Thomas Truxton
Henry Benbridge
navy
officers
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
pay of navy
subsistence

