Letter from the Accountant of the War Department
Document 1798Simmons provides Freeman an account balance. Simmons also states that payment will be delayed until appropriations are passed.
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Lieut Horatio B. Dayton Accountants Office
Elizabeth town New Jersey May 15 179[undecipherable]
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 10 [undecipherable]
I have to observe that my meaning was that my mea[undecipherable]
was that you should state & transmit to this Office your ac[undecipherable]
the amount of which is intended to be remitted to the su[undecipherable]
at New York (so soon as the Appropriations pass) and to be [undecipherable]
him paid to you on your giving him the necessary [undecipherable]
Saml [undecipherable] [signature]
Lieut Nehemih Freeman Accountants Office
West Point May 17 [undecipherable]
Sir
The Muster & Pay rolls of the [undecipherable]
at West Point for April 93 contained in your letter of the 11 [undecipherable]
has undergone examination and the following is the result
amount as stated by you . . . . . . . . . Drs 1068. 22.
To which add Subsistence of Capt Littlefield
as pr statement returned you herewith, to enable
you to obtain the necessary receipt on it when
you make the payment . . . . . . . . . . . 87. 53.
Short added on the aggregate amounts . . . . in. 10
1143[undecipherable]
From which deduct, Pay & Forage of Col. Rochefontaine
his pay subsistence & forage to be Settled separately 89. 48.
Extra pay made up for Jacob Baker, incom[undecipherable] . . 5. —
Pay made up for John Brownson, the whole of his
pay to be withheld until the sentence of the Court
[Cancelled]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Simmons provides Freeman an account balance. Simmons also states that payment will be delayed until appropriations are passed.
Date
05/17/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1798051721255
Page start
345
Note
Cited in Simmons to Freeman, 05/19/1798.
Notable persons
Lieutenant Nehemiah Freeman
William Simmons
garrison West Point
Captain Littlefield
Colonel Rochefontaine
John Brownson
William Kelley
John Whitney
Lieutenant Van Allen
deserter
Surgeon's Mate Steele
congress
Notable locations
West Point
Accountant's Office
New York
Georgia
Notable items
muster roll
pay roll
examination
subsistence
statement
receipt
payment
forage
inadmissible
sentence of the court martial
deductions
law
appropriations

