Certification of payments; detachment at Ellis's Island
Document 1798Certification that $125.08 is due a detachment of recruits at Ellis's Island under the command of Lieutenant David Hale, being his and their pay for March 1798.
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Accountants Office
April 9. 1798
I Certify, that there is due to a detachment of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Governors Islands under the command of Captain Frederick Frye the sum of Three hundred and fifty seven Dollars and [undecipherable] being for pay and subsistence of himself [undecipherable] William Wilson Surgeon Mate Samuel Osborne, including forage and for pay of the non commissioned Officers & Privates of the said Detachment per March 1798, which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York & [undecipherable] by him paid to the said Captain Frye who is to be accountable also for the due application of the same —
W. Simmons
Acct.
Pay of the Army 303.29
Subsistence of Officers 49.96
Forage of Officers 4...
$357.1
The Sec. of War?
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $125.08 is due a detachment of recruits at Ellis's Island under the command of Lieutenant David Hale, being his and their pay for March 1798.
Date
04/04/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798040421255
Page start
131
Note
Account of David Hale and detachment.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
Supervisor New York
Lieutenant David Hale
detachment recruits
command
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Ellis's Island
Ellis Island
New York
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay