Request for Credit to Account, Receipt Rolls Enclosed
Document 1798Frye encloses a number of receipts. He asks that Simmons credit his account $134.07. He encloses the muster and pay rolls but no receipt roll.
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[Wm Simmons Esqr]
[Docketing: R
Governor's Island Capt Fryes
[undecipherable] Receipts for Subsistence
& Muster & Pay Rolls]
Governor's Island March 1st 1798
Sir,
Inclosed is Lieut. W. Wilson's Receipt for Ninety two Dollars & forty Cents for Subsistance from 1st April to 31st Decemr 1797. — Dols 92,40
also Docr S. Osborn's Receipt for ten Dollars and forty two Cents for his Subsistance for December — 10,42
My Subsistance for December amounted to thirty one Dollars and twenty five Cents — 31,25
Dols 134. 7
Please to pass to my Credit in the books of your office the Sum of one hundred and thirty four Dollars and seven Cents. — I have no Receipt Roll for pay for the Month of January, 98, to transmit.
I have inclosed Muster and Pay Rolls for the Month of February — and also a General Statement of Subsistance due the officers at this Post for February. —
I am Sir
respectfully
your very humbl Servant
Fredk Frye Captain
Commandg
NB. I am in want of blank Receipt Rolls, and shall soon want Muster and Pay Rolls. F.F.
Willm Simmons Esqr
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Frye encloses a number of receipts. He asks that Simmons credit his account $134.07. He encloses the muster and pay rolls but no receipt roll.
Date
03/01/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Governor's Island
Document number
1798030170101
Page start
1
Note
This document was acknowledged by Peter Hagner.
Cited in Hagner to Frye, 03/06/1798.
Notable persons
William Simmons
Frederick Frye
Lieutenant W. Wilson
Doctor S Osborn
Notable locations
Governor's Island
Notable items
receipt
subsistence
receipt roll
muster roll
pay roll
general statement of subsistence
blank receipt rolls

