Certification of payments; account of the Corps at West Point
Document 1798Certification that $2252.82 is due the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point, being for the pay, subsistence, and forage of the commissioned officers and the retained bounties of the non-commissioned officers and privates for January through March 1798.
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Accountants Office
May 31 1798
I certify, that there is due to the Corps of Artificers & Engineers stationed at West Point the sum of nine hundred seventy eight dollars the being for pay & forage of the commissioned Officers pay of the non commissioned Officers & Privates of the said Garrison for April 1798, for pay of Capt. William Littlefield from 1 November 1797 to 30 April 1798 inclusive & for his subsistence from 1 October 1797 to 31 March 1798 inclusive. Which sum is payable to lieut McN[undecipherable] Fruman Temporary Pay master who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same.
Pay of the army for 1797 [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
ditto 1792 792.40
Subsistence 1797 46. 26
forage 1792 11. 9
1798 1[undecipherable]
Dolls 79[undecipherable]
W Simmons
Actg
The 2d of June
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Accountants Office
May 31 1798
I certify that there is due to the Corps of Artificers & Engineers two thousand two hundred & fifty two Dollars & [undecipherable] the being for pay subsistence & forage of the commissioned Officers & pay & [undecipherable] & Privates of the non commissioned Officers & Privates of the said Garrison from [undecipherable] January to 31 March 1798 inclusive which is payable to lieut Nehemiah Fruman Temporary Pay master who
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $2252.82 is due the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point, being for the pay, subsistence, and forage of the commissioned officers and the retained bounties of the non-commissioned officers and privates for January through March 1798.
Date
05/31/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798053121555
Page start
173
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Lieutenant Nehemiah Freeman
Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
commissioned officers
non commissioned officers
privates
accountant
Secretary of War
temporary paymaster
Notable locations
West Point
New York
Accountants Office
Notable items
bounties
pay
forage
subsistence

