Certification of payments; account of Lieutenant Sterret and pay of Zebulon Pike
Document 1798Certification that $423.70 is due Lieutenant James Sterret, Paymaster to the 1st Battalion of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being the balance of payments made by him to the officers Captain Thomas Pasteur, Captain Zebulon Pike, Surgeon's Mate John Hammell, and his own pay, subsistence, and forage as Lieutenant Adjutant and Paymaster, through December 1797.
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accountable for the due application of the same —
Pay of the Army for 1st qr. 335. 16 W Simmons Actg
Forage of Officers do 6. —
336. 16
Thos Lee 2d of Novr
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Accountants Office
February 12 1795
I Certify that there is due to a Detachment by the Corps of Artificers & Engineers stationed at Fort Wolcot under the command of Captain Joseph Elliott the sum of two hundred thirty two 3 dollars 38 Sixteen Cents being the Pay of himself their 2 Noncommissioned Officers 2 Privates of the said Detachment on January 1795 in part also to be transmitted to John A Drake Supervisor at Providence to be by him paid to the said Capt Elliott who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same —
Pay of the Army for 1795 232. 16 W Simmons
Acct
Tho Lee 2d of Novr
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Accountants Office
February 10 1795
I Certify that there is due to Lieut James Street Pay Master to the 1st Battalion Corps of Artificers & Engineers the sum of four hundred Seventy three Dollars 70100 being balance of his accounts for payments made by him to the said Battalion to be from [undecipherable] Company 1st Regiment — Captain Ebbilton Kelp Company 2d Regiment and to Surgeons Mate John Hammell 4th Regiment — for their Subsistance and Forage to the 31st October 1797 and his own pay Subsistance & Forage as Lieutenant Adjutant and Paymaster to 31st December 1797 —
Do 265. 44 Pay of the Army for 1797
36. 26 Subsistance of Officer
Dollars 473. 70 [undecipherable]
W Simmons
Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $423.70 is due Lieutenant James Sterret, Paymaster to the 1st Battalion of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being the balance of payments made by him to the officers Captain Thomas Pasteur, Captain Zebulon Pike, Surgeon's Mate John Hammell, and his own pay, subsistence, and forage as Lieutenant Adjutant and Paymaster, through December 1797.
Date
02/10/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798021021055
Page start
101
Note
Account of James Sterret.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Captain Zebulon Pike
Lieutenant James Sterret, Paymaster to the 1st Battalion of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
Captain Thomas Pasteur
Surgeon's Mate John Hammell
Lieutenant Adjutant and Paymaster
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
subsistence
forage
service of Captain Zebulon Pike

