Certification of payments; compensation of troops at Fort Norfolk, Virginia
Document 1798Certification that $1462.69 is due the troops at Fort Norfolk Virginia under the command of Captain Richard Blackburn, being for the pay of himself and his company, including forage for Surgeon's Mate William Barnwell, the pay of the detachment of Lieutenant Ferdinand L. Claiborne through June 1798, and also for bounties due recruits enlisted by Lt. Claiborne
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Accountants Office
July 27th 1798
I Certify that there is due to Roger M[undecipherable] the sum of Twenty Dollars & thirty three Cents being for his Services as Surgeon of the Militia Hospital established at Pittsburg by order of Major General Lee from 8 December 1794 to 9 February 1795.
W. Simmons
Acct
[Militia: called out for Suppress an Insurrection on the Western Counties of Pennsylvania. P 202.]
The Sect of War
Accountants Office
July 27th 1798
I Certify that there is due to Thomas Dungan late a Private in Captn Foye's Coy of a detatchment of Engineers the sum of five Dollars & seventy one Cents being for his pay from the time to which he was last paid to the 21 July 1798 the day his term of service expired.
W. Simmons
Acct
[Pay of the Army 2.7]
The Sect of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $1462.69 is due the troops at Fort Norfolk Virginia under the command of Captain Richard Blackburn, being for the pay of himself and his company, including forage for Surgeon's Mate William Barnwell, the pay of the detachment of Lieutenant Ferdinand L. Claiborne through June 1798, and also for bounties due recruits enlisted by Lt. Claiborne
Date
07/24/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798072421356
Page start
205
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
troops
Captain Richard Blackburn
company
Surgeon's Mate William Barnwell
detachment
Lieutenant Ferdinand L. Claiborne
recruits
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Fort Norfolk
Virginia
Accountants Office
Notable items
bounties
pay
forage

