Certification of payments; salary of C. P. Pourcheresse
Document 1798Certification that $90 is due Claude P. Pourcheresse, Assistant Military Storekeeper at Springfield Massachusetts, being his salary for April through June 1798.
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Accountants Office
August 20th 1791
I Certify that there is due to the Troops station'd at Fort Norfolk in Virginia under the command of Capt Richard Blackburn the sum of six hundred & forty five Dollars — for being for the pay of himself & one Company including forage of Surgeon Mate William Barnewell; for the pay of Lieut Blackburn his Detachment for the month of July 1791 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 —
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Pay of the army 639.20
Forage of Officers 6.—
Dollars 645.20
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Accountants Office
August 25 1791
I Certify that there is due to 2 Detachments of Troops the one of Artificers & 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 [undecipherable] Surgeon Mate [undecipherable] including forage — the non commissioned Officers & Privates of said Detachments for July 91 —
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $90 is due Claude P. Pourcheresse, Assistant Military Storekeeper at Springfield Massachusetts, being his salary for April through June 1798.
Date
08/25/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798082521055
Page start
224
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Claude P. Pourcheresse
Assistant Military Storekeeper
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Springfield
armory
Massachusetts
Notable items
salary
pay
contingencies

