Certification of payments; compensation of a detachment at West Point, New York
Document 1798Certification that $747.49 is due a detachment of the 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, being for the pay and forage of the commissioned officers and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates for July 1798, including the pay of two discharged men and retained bounty due six recruits.
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[274] Capt. Groton W. Simmons
Acct. 75
Pay of the army in 1797 30—
Lettre 1792 20—
Indian 240—
The Secretary of War No 3171
Accountants Office
August 24 1798
I Certify that there is due to E. P. [undecipherable] military Store keeper at Springfield Massachusetts the sum of ninety Dollars being for his salary from 1 April to 30 June 1794 admitted by the Secretary of War —
W Simmons
Acct. D
No 90 Contingencies War Dept.
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
August 24 1798
I Certify that there is due to a company of [undecipherable] Engineers stationed at Fort Putnam under the command of Capt. William Littlejohn the sum of four hundred eighty nine Dollars & [undecipherable] being for the pay of [undecipherable] & the non commissioned Officers & Privates of the [undecipherable] to be 20 July 1798 [undecipherable] an advance from 1 April to 30 June [undecipherable] which sum is to be transmitted to Capt. [undecipherable] supervisor at [undecipherable] to be by him paid to the said Capt. Littlejohn who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same —
No 3169 W. Simmons
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $747.49 is due a detachment of the 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, being for the pay and forage of the commissioned officers and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates for July 1798, including the pay of two discharged men and retained bounty due six recruits.
Date
08/21/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798082121152
Page start
223
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Nehemiah Freeman
temporary paymaster West Point
1st Regiment
Artillerists and Engineers
commissioned officers
non commissioned officers
privates
discharged men
recruits
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
West Point
New York
Notable items
pay
forage
retained bounty

