Certification of payments; recruits at New Brunswick, New Jersey
Document 1798Certification that $145.85 is due a detachment of recruits at New Brunswick, New Jersey under the command of Ensign William R. Boote, being his and their pay for March 1798.
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Accountants Office
Feby 10 1798
I Certify that there is due to a Detachment of [undecipherable] Recruits stationed at New-Brunswick, under the command of Ensign William B Knox, the sum of two hundred and forty five Dollars, eighty five Cents, being for his and their pay for March 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York, to be by him paid to the said Ensign Knox who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same.
[Pay of the Army for 97 145.85] W Simmons
Acct.
The Sec.y of War
Accountants Office
April 11 1798
I Certify that there is due to Peter A Dransy, Lieutenant in the Corps of [undecipherable] the sum of thirty four Dollars, being for bounties paid to [undecipherable] & premiums allowed him for enlisting two Recruits in the service of the United States which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish supervisor at New York and to be by him paid to the said [undecipherable] Dransy.
[Bounties to Clams 30
Expense of Recruiting 4
[undecipherable] 35] W Simmons
Acct.
The Sec.y of War
[Nro 2/24]
Accountants Office
April 11. 1798
I Certify that there is due to George Dufour the sum of [undecipherable] thirty [undecipherable] Cents, being for his pay, subsistence & forage as surgeon [undecipherable] in the Army prior to February, the time he was last paid for, to 11 March 1798 and the day of his Resignation
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $145.85 is due a detachment of recruits at New Brunswick, New Jersey under the command of Ensign William R. Boote, being his and their pay for March 1798.
Date
04/10/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798041021255
Page start
138
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
recruits
command
Ensign William R. Boote
accountant
Secretary of War
detachment
Notable locations
New Brunswick
New Jersey
New York
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay

