Certification of payments; compensation of Private Taylor
Document 1798Certification that $11.59 is due to Private William Taylor of Captain Samuel A. Harper's Company of Maryland Militia called into service in the year 1794 to suppress an insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania, being additional compensation allowed him by an Act of Congress of January 2, 1795.
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Accountants Office
June 22. 1798
I Certify that there is due to Louis C. [undecipherable] Captain
or [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] the sum of fifty three dollars & [undecipherable] being for his
pay & subsistence for the month of May 1798.
Pay of the Army 46 —
Subsistence [undecipherable] 12. 37
53. 37
The Sec'y of War W Simmons
Acct [undecipherable]
Accountants Office
June 23rd 1798
I Certify that there is due to Capt. Edward D. Turner
of the 2d United States Regt the sum of sixty four dollars & [undecipherable] being for his
pay & subsistence for May 1798.
Pay of the Army 40. —
Subsistence of [undecipherable] 11. 72
Do 51. 72
The Secy of War W Simmons
Acct [undecipherable]
Accountants Office
June 25. 1798
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] late a [undecipherable]
in Capt. Samuel H. Harper Company of Maryland Militia while in service in
the Year 1797, [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania
the sum of eleven dollars [undecipherable] this being the additional compensation allowed by the
act of Congress of [undecipherable] 95 which sum is payable to themselves [undecipherable] for [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $11.59 is due to Private William Taylor of Captain Samuel A. Harper's Company of Maryland Militia called into service in the year 1794 to suppress an insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania, being additional compensation allowed him by an Act of Congress of January 2, 1795.
Date
06/25/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798062521155
Page start
187
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Private William Taylor
Captain Samuel Harper
Congress
Maryland Militia
Maryland Militia
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Western counties of Pennsylvania
Maryland
Notable items
insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania
pay
compensation
act of congress

