Certification of payments; compensation of Thomas Hughes, blacksmith
Document 1798Certification that $96.25 is due Thomas Hughes, being for the blacksmith work done to the gun carriage at the garrison at West Point for October through December 1797.
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Accountants Office
Jany 14th 1798
I Certify that there is due from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the service of the Ordnance Department at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the sum of forty four Dollars & [undecipherable] Cent, being for the pay for Jan 98 which sum is to be [undecipherable] to Nicholas Fish [undecipherable] New York, to be by him paid to George Stowing [undecipherable] Foreman & military Storekeeper at West point who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same.
[undecipherable] Simmons
Acct.
[Pay of the Army for 98 $44.0[undecipherable]]
[The Acct. Off.]
Accountants Office
February 20th 1798
I Certify that there is due to Joseph [undecipherable] the sum of five hundred forty four Dollars & forty five Cents being [undecipherable] of his account for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Arms and finding materials for the same at the [undecipherable] West Point [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] January 98 which sum is to be [undecipherable] to Nicholas Fish [undecipherable] at New York and is to be by him [undecipherable] to [strikethrough: [undecipherable]], payable to d. Mr [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[$344.45]
[The Acct. Off.]
Accountants Office
February 23rd 1798
I Certify that there is due to Thomas Hooper the sum of ninety two Dollars & twenty five cents being for blacksmiths work done [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at the service of [undecipherable] Point from October to December 97 which sum is to be [undecipherable] to Nicholas Fish [undecipherable] at New York, to be by him paid to George Stowing [undecipherable] Foreman & military Storekeeper at West Point who is to be held accountable [undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $96.25 is due Thomas Hughes, being for the blacksmith work done to the gun carriage at the garrison at West Point for October through December 1797.
Date
02/19/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798021921155
Page start
108
Note
Account of Thomas Hughes.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Thomas Hughes
blacksmith
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
New York
West Point
garrison
Notable items
pay
blacksmith work
gun carriage

