Certification of payments; compensation of Company at Fort Wolcott, Rhode Island
Document 1798Certification that $469.28 is due a company of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Wolcott under the command of Captain William Littlefield, being for the pay of himself and the non-commissioned officers and privates through July 1798 and for his subsistence for April through June 1798.
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Accountants Office
August 20th 1791
I Certify that there is due to the Troops stationed at Fort Norfolk in Virginia under the command of Capt Richard Blackburn the sum of one hundred & fifty Dollars — for being for the pay of himself & one Company including forage of Surgeon Mate William Barwick; also the pay of Lieut Claiborn — his Detachment for the month of July '91 which sum is to be transmitted to Edward Carrington supervisor Richmond to be by him paid to the said Capt Blackburn who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same —
H [undecipherable]
Asst
Pay of the Army [undecipherable: probable reading 609].20
Forage of Officers 6. —
Dollars [undecipherable: probable reading 615].20
The Secretary at War
Accountants Office
August 21 1791
I Certify that there is due to 2 Detachments of Troops (the one of [undecipherable] Engineers — the other of Infantry) under the command of Major [undecipherable] Edwards, the sum of two hundred & eighty four Dollars & [undecipherable] being for the pay of Capt James Britt Surgeon's Mate John G [undecipherable] including forage — the non commissioned Officers & Privates of said Detachments for July 91 —
H Simmons
Asst
[bottom left docket notation: Pay & forage [undecipherable] 11th [undecipherable] 27]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $469.28 is due a company of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Wolcott under the command of Captain William Littlefield, being for the pay of himself and the non-commissioned officers and privates through July 1798 and for his subsistence for April through June 1798.
Date
08/22/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798082221155
Page start
224
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
John Dexter
supervisor Providence
artillerists and engineers
Captain William Littlefield
non commissioned officers
officers
privates
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Fort Wolcott
New Port
Rhode Island
Notable items
pay
subsistence

