Certification of payments; detachment at Mud Island Fort
Document 1798Certification that $684.41 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at Mud Island Fort under the command of Major Lewis Tousard, being for the pay and forage of the officers, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, for June 1798.
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Subsistence from [undecipherable] to the 21 June 1795 the day the President approved of that part of the Sentence of the General Court Martial ordering the said Ensign Parmele to be cashiered—
$73.91 Subsistence of Officers Wm Simmons
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The Secy of War
Accountants Office
July 6th 1795
I Certify that there is due to Frederick Sprigg Assistant Military Store keeper at West Point the sum of ninety Dollars being for his salary from 10 April to 30 June 1795. which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish supervisor New York to be by him paid to the said Frederick Sprigg—
Dolls 90.— Wm Simmons—
The Secy of War Acct t
Accountants Office
July 6th 1795
I Certify that there is due to a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers stationed at Mud Islands Fort under the command of Major Lewis Toussard, the sum of six hundred & eighty four dollars & [undecipherable] being for pay & forage of the Officers, for pay of the non commissioned Officers, & also of the said detachment for June 1795 per which sum the said Major Toussard is accountable—
which sum is to be transmitted to John Chester supervisor of Connecticut to be by him paid to Major J H Buell who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same.
Subsistence of Officers Do Cu Wm Simmons
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The Secy of War
Accountants Office
July 9th 1798.
I Certify that there is due to James Becker a Private in the [undecipherable] U.S. Regt & order to Major John H Buell the sum of thirty six Dollars being for his pay from 1 October 9[undecipherable] to 30 June 9[undecipherable] which sum is to be transmitted to John Chester supervisor of Connecticut to be by him paid to the said Major Buell who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same.
Pay of the Army 36.— Wm Simmons
The Secy of War Acct t
Accountants Office
July 10th 1795
I Certify that there is due to John Carr of New [undecipherable] in the state of Rhode Island the sum of one hundred fifty eight dollars [undecipherable] admitted & allowed by the Secretary of War being for his attendance in the care of Fort Washington in the said state from 1 January 1796 to 31 July [undecipherable] which sum is payable to Thomas Tillinghast in virtue of a power of [undecipherable] from the said John Carr—
W: Simmons
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[J& Capt M.I. 155.33]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $684.41 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at Mud Island Fort under the command of Major Lewis Tousard, being for the pay and forage of the officers, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates, for June 1798.
Date
07/06/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798070621352
Page start
193
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
John Chester
supervisor Connecticut
detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers
officers
non commissioned officers
privates
accountant
Secretary of War
command
Notable locations
Connecticut
Accountants Office
Mud Island Fort
Notable items
pay
forage
command


