Enclosed sum for recruiting service
Document 1798Encloses the sum of 450 dollars to Ensign Boote for the recruiting service. Requests that he transmit a receipt of the transaction to the Secretary at War.
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War Office, Jany 31: 1798
Sir,
I inclose you the Sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, in a Post Note, on account of the Recruiting Service for which Sum you are to be accountable. Please to transmit me your Receipt for the same, under Cover to the Secretary of War —
I am, Sir,
Your obed Servant,
Samuel Lewis Senr
Ensign William Ro Boote
[address panel: War Office / James McHenry / K.E.F. / Ensign William Ro. Boote — / New Brunswick / New Jersey]
[marginalia on address panel: [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Encloses the sum of 450 dollars to Ensign Boote for the recruiting service. Requests that he transmit a receipt of the transaction to the Secretary at War.
Date
01/31/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Collection
Document number
1798013115001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Boote to Lewis, 02/03/1798.
Notable persons
William Rowland Boote
Samuel Lewis
[James McHenry]
Secretary at War
Notable locations
New Brunswick, New Jersey
War Office
Notable items
Recruiting
receipt