Certification of payments; detachment at Fort McHenry, Baltimore
Document 1798Certification that $100 is due a detachment of Artillerists and Engineers at Fort McHenry, Baltimore under the command of Captain Staats Morris, being the balance of their pay for May 1798.
100%
⇣No human transcription currently available for this document.
This transcription was generated by machine using Anthropic's Claude Code (a mix of sonnet and opus models). It may contain errors or inaccuracies. Please verify against the document image. Learn more about our generative AI methodology.
Accountants Office
Trenton May 21st 1798
I Certify that there is due to a Detachment of the 1st Regt of A & C stationed at West Point the sum of seven hundred forty seven Dollars & 3 being for the ray [pays?] of the commissioned Officers & the pay of the non commissioned Officers & Privates for the month of July 1797 including the pay of two discharged men the retained bounty due to six Recruits which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Forks supervisor New York to be by him paid to the Resident Freeman Temporary Paymaster at West Point who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same —
Pay of Comp in 1797 44
[table illegible] 179 Rec 33 671 44
[Pay] of Officers 38 7
[Bounties] to Soldiers 44 —
Dollars 747 44
Wm Simmons
Audr [?]
The Secretary of War
No 2470
Accountants Office
Trenton August 21 1798
I Certify that there is due to Captn Richard H Greaton of the 2d U S Regiment the sum of five hundred forty Dollars being the amount relinquished out of his monthly pay, from 1 December 1797 to 21 July 1798 the day the [undecipherable] was agreeably to a certificate of the Paymaster General which sum is to be transmitted to Jonathan Forks supervisor at Trenton to be by him paid to Samuel Heath Attorney Presen
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $100 is due a detachment of Artillerists and Engineers at Fort McHenry, Baltimore under the command of Captain Staats Morris, being the balance of their pay for May 1798.
Date
08/18/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798081821255
Page start
222
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
John Kilty
supervisor Baltimore
detachment
artillerists and engineers
Captain Staats Morris
accountant
Secretary of War
command
Notable locations
Fort McHenry
Baltimore
Maryland
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
balance

