Certification of payments; account of Boyd Vaughn
Document 1797Payment due Boyd Vaughn, late a clerk of Philadelphia Navy Yard, the sum of $70.83, his salary from 1 January to 20 February 1798
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1 July 1796 to 31st December 1797 inclusive —
[Accts & Cont Exp 1688.1] [J. Hagner / D. Cler]
The Sec of War
Num 2 - 43
Accountants Office
February 25 1798
I Certify that there is due to Boyd Kingman late Clerk of the Navy Yard Philadelphia the sum of seventy Dollars thirteen Cents being for his salary from 1st January to 20th February 1798 inclusive the date of his resignation —
Peter Hagner
D. C.
D $70.13
The Sec of War
Num 2690
Accountants Office
February 26 1798
I Certify that there is due to Richard Town late [a] Private in the corps of Artificers & Engineers Captain Donald & Mitchel Company the sum of Seven Dollars forty three [Cents] being for his pay from 1 January to the 22 February 1798 the date of his discharge —
Peter Hagner
D. Cler
D $7.43
The Sec of War
Accountants Office
March 1 1798
I Certify that there is due to Andries Hofsuman the sum of one hundred forty Dollars forty seven Cents being for Blacksmiths work in repairing [undecipherable] making repairing Gun carriages from 1 August to 8 December 1797 agreeably to the Certificate of Samuel Hodgdon Superintendent of Military Stores —
Peter Hagner
D. Cler
D $140.47
The Secretary of War
Num 2630
Accountants Office
March 2 1798
I Certify that there is due to John Steele Coxswain under the [undecipherable] of the little barge stationed at Mount [undecipherable] the sum of fifty four Dollars being for his pay for February 1798 whose accounts payable to John Steele by order —
Peter Hagner
D. Cler
Doll. 54.
The Secretary of War
Num 2632
Accountants Office
March 7 1798
I Certify that there is due to Jonathan Jackson [undecipherable] He [undecipherable] the sum of [undecipherable] Dollars and thirteen Cents being the amount of his account of Commissions for receiving & paying money from the Department from 1st April to 31st December 1797
$142.13 Peter Hagner
Cler
The Secretary of War
Num 2631
Accountants Office
March 5 1798
I Certify that there is due to detachment of [undecipherable: Artificers Dragoons?] stationed at Governors Island under the command of Capt [undecipherable] the sum of three hundred [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] Cents being for pay & [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] William [undecipherable] pay [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Samuel [undecipherable] Surgeons [undecipherable: Male?] & the pay of the non commissioned Officers & Privates of the said Detachment for February 1798 which sum is to be transmitted to Lieutenant [undecipherable] [undecipherable] New York to be by him paid to the said [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same —
Peter Hagner
D. Cler
$376.70 [undecipherable]
$22.70 [undecipherable: Subaltern?] Officers
$3.62 [undecipherable]
$363.48
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
March 6 1798
I Certify that there is due to detachment of the Corps of Artificers & [undecipherable: Dragoons?] stationed [at] Fort McHenry under the command of Capt [undecipherable] the sum of [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] being for the pay of [undecipherable] Lieutenants Samuel [undecipherable: Devor?] & Philip Sanders and the non commissioned Officers & Privates of said Detachment for February 1798 which sum is to be [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Delaware [undecipherable] to be paid to the said Captain [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same —
$1[undecipherable]8.33[undecipherable]
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Payment due Boyd Vaughn, late a clerk of Philadelphia Navy Yard, the sum of $70.83, his salary from 1 January to 20 February 1798
Date
02/28/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798022821255
Page start
114
Note
Account of Boyd Vaughn.
Notable persons
James McHenry
Peter Hagner
clerk
accountant
Secretary of War
Boyd Vaughn
principal clerk
Notable locations
Philadelphia
navy yard
Accountants Office
Notable items
salary
pay

