Certification of payments; salary of Thomas Smith, deceased
Document 1798Certification that $52.99 is due the estate of Thomas Smith, clerk of the Navy Yard at Philadelphia being his salary from August 15, 1797, the date of his appointment, to September 22, 1797, following the day of his death.
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Accountants Office
February 14th 1798
I certify that there is due to James [undecipherable] Rodriguez of the [undecipherable] Additional [undecipherable] Companies the sum of eighty Dollars being for Bounties paid & Premium allowed him for Enlisting [undecipherable] Recruits in the service of the United States which sum is here transmitted to [undecipherable] the supervisor at New York to be by him paid to the said Lieutenant Rodriguez.
Bounties to [undecipherable] 34
Expenses of Recruiting 6
Dollars 40
The Sec: of War W Simmons Acct
Accountants Office
February 13th 1798
I certify that there is due to the Estate of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] deceased late [undecipherable] th [undecipherable] Army [undecipherable] Valetudinarian the sum of fifty five Dollars & ninety nine Cents being for his salary from the 13th August [undecipherable] the date of his attachment to the 22nd September following the day of his death
[undecipherable] Army [undecipherable] half [undecipherable] Dept
The Sec'y of War W Simmons Acct [undecipherable]
Accountants Office
December 21st 1793
I certify that there is due in a [undecipherable] of the pay of [undecipherable] Additional [undecipherable] Surgeons stationed at [undecipherable] Niagara [undecipherable] the command of Major [undecipherable] March [undecipherable] the sum of two hundred nineteen Dollars & thirteen [undecipherable] being for the pay for October 1793 of [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] parades [undecipherable] John M. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Transactions [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] Commissary Officers & Privates of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Detachment.
Pay of the Army for 1793 [undecipherable] 18
Forage of Officers 0 — 12
[undecipherable] — 15
The Sec. of War W Simmons Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $52.99 is due the estate of Thomas Smith, clerk of the Navy Yard at Philadelphia being his salary from August 15, 1797, the date of his appointment, to September 22, 1797, following the day of his death.
Date
02/15/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798021521055
Page start
103
Note
Account of Thomas Smith, deceased.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Thomas Smith
clerk of the Navy Yard at Philadelphia
accountant
Secretary of War
deceased
Notable locations
navy yard Philadelphia
Accountants Office
Notable items
death
pay
salary
appointment

