Certification of payments; account of Lieutenant Dransy
Document 1798Certification that $34 is due Lieutenant Peter A. Dransy of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being bounties paid and a premium allowed him for enlisting two recruits.
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Accountants Office
Jany 10. 1798
I Certify that there is due to a Detachment of [?] Recruits stationed at New Brunswick, under the command of Ensign William B. Knox, the sum of Two hundred and eighty five Dollars eighty five Cents being for his and their pay for March 1793 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fisk 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 93 125.85
W. Simmons
Acct.
The Secy of War
Accountants Office
April 11. 1798
I certify that there is due to Peter McIlvaney, Lieutenant in the troops of U.S. the sum of thirty four Dollars, being for bounties paid to [&] premiums allowed him for enlisting two Recruits in the service of the United States which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fisk Supervisor at New York and to be by him paid to the said Lieut McIlvaney.
Bounties to claim 30 —
Expenses of recruiting 4 —
Dr 35
W. Simmons
Acct.
The Secy of War
Noo 2/34
Accountants Office
April 11. 179[undecipherable]
I certify that there is due to George DePew the sum of forty [undecipherable] Dollars thirty two Cents, being for his pay subsistence [&] forage as surgeon's mate in the army from [undecipherable] February, the time he was last paid to [undecipherable] 10 March 179[undecipherable] until the day of his Resignation —
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $34 is due Lieutenant Peter A. Dransy of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being bounties paid and a premium allowed him for enlisting two recruits.
Date
04/11/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798041121055
Page start
138
Note
Account of Peter A. Dransy.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Lieutenant Peter A. Dransy
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
New York
Accountants Office
Notable items
bounties
premium
pay
enlisting recruits
recruiting

