Paying Invalid Pensioners
Document 1798Enclosed is a list of Invalid Pensioners with a warrant for their payment for March 5th to September 4th, 1798. The Secretary of the Treasury will provide the funds to make these payments. Perkins is directed to transmit a return of any deaths or removals that have come to his attention.
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[Docket: James McHenry. Secretary of War — enclosing list of Invalid Pensioners to whom pensions will be due 4th Sep. 1798. 1 Augt recd Jany 9]
War Department August 1. 1798.
Sir.
I transmit you a list of Invalid Pensioners for the State of Massachusetts, with my warrant thereon for the payment of their pensions from the Fifth of March, to the Fourth of September 1798, inclusive.
The Secretary of the Treasury will furnish you the necessary funds to pay said Invalids.
You will please transmit to this Department, in the beginning of December next, a return of any deaths, or removals, that may then have come to your knowledge.
I am Sir,
your most obedt Servant.
James McHenry
Thomas Perkins Esqr
Commissioner of Loans,
Massachusetts.
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Enclosed is a list of Invalid Pensioners with a warrant for their payment for March 5th to September 4th, 1798. The Secretary of the Treasury will provide the funds to make these payments. Perkins is directed to transmit a return of any deaths or removals that have come to his attention.
Date
08/01/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1798080100201
Page start
1
Notable persons
Thomas Perkins, Commissioner of Loans
James McHenry
Secretary of the Treasury [Oliver Wolcott, Jr.]
Notable locations
Massachusetts
War Department
Notable items
warrant thereon for the payment of their pensions
necessary funds to pay said invalids
return of any deaths or removals
list of Invalid pensions

