Letter from the Accountant of the War Department
Document 1798Simmons provides an account balance and suspends advances to McDermott.
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Lieut Dan Bissell Accountants Office
Middletown May 14 [--]
Sir
I duly received your letter dat[--]
7 Insts enclosing your account of pay & subsistence from [--]
to 30 April which has been examined & the amount afte[r--]
the sum overpaid you by Mr Craig being 16[undecipherable] d[olla]rs leaving [--]
balance of one hundred & thirty dollars & ten Cents in you[r--]
has been remitted to John Chester Esqr Supervisor of Conne[cticut--]
to whom you will give the necessary receipts
I am &c
W[--]
Mr Paul McDermott Accountants Office
Knoxville, Tennessee May 15th 179[--]
Sir
Mr Anderson has lodged in this Off[ice]
Receipts for monies paid by you to the following Officers of the [--]
Cavalry, under General Morgan, to wit
No 1 . . May 24th 1795 Capt John Simonson . . . . . . . . 2675 . 26
2 . . do . . . . . . . . . G D Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2279 . 38 .
3 . . do . . . . . . . . . Ct C Randolph [undecipherable] . . 2669 . 34
4 . . do . . . . . . . . . Ditto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611 . 87 3[--]
The former payments to Captains Simonson & Low amounting [to--]
thousand nine hundred fifty four dollars, &c will, as they cor[respond--]
with the Pay Rolls on which you received the advances from [--]
be passed to your credit & those Officers called upon to account [--]
same, by producing the receipts of the Individuals
The latter sum say 3281 [undecipherable] d[olla]rs paid to [--]
Randolph does not correspond with the Pay Rolls on which yo[u--]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Simmons provides an account balance and suspends advances to McDermott.
Date
05/15/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1798051521255
Page start
339
Notable persons
Paul McDermott
William Simmons
Mr. Anderson
General Morgan
Captain John Simonson
G.D. Low
C. Randolph
officers
Colonel Nevill
Virginia Cavalry
Notable locations
Knoxville, Tennessee
Accountant's Office
Notable items
receipts
money
payments
advances
credit
account
payrolls

