Receipts for Bounty Paid
Document 1798Enclosed are receipts for bounty paid the previous week, amounting to $25. The fifer hired has been paid five dollars for one month.
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Port Tobacco June 2d 1798
Sir
I have received your letter of the 22th May — & now transmit you receipts for bounty paid last week — Amounting to twenty five dollars. I am
Sir
Your obedt Servt
P.S. I have paid the Fifer hired. five dollars for one month Pay — $o[undecipherable]
Samd. T. Dyson Lieut
Artilt Corps
[address leaf:]
[Port Tobacco 5 Jun 98 Free]
Mr William Simmons Esqr
Accountant for the
Department of War —
Philadelphia
[notation: From Lieut Dyson
recd. [undecipherable] 9, 98
and — [undecipherable] day]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Enclosed are receipts for bounty paid the previous week, amounting to $25. The fifer hired has been paid five dollars for one month.
Date
06/04/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Port Tobacco
Document number
1798060470101
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Simmons to Dyson, 06/09/1798.
Notable persons
William Simmons
Samuel Dyson
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Port Tobacco