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[228] Accountants Office Sept. 8: 1798 I certify that there is due to John Steel [undecipherable] as to the Leader of the Public forage employed at Mud [undecipherable] Fort the sum of [undecipherable] sixty four Dollars being pay for [undecipherable] & their pay for August 1798 which sum refers to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] command[undecipherable] [undecipherable] reports. N.B. Dols. W Simmons Acct. [undecipherable] The sec. of War N^o 3179 Accountants Office Trenton September [undecipherable] I Certify that there is due to a Detachment of [undecipherable] Engineers stationed at Mud Island Fort under the command of [undecipherable] Lewis [undecipherable] the sum of one hundred & thirteen Dollars to the being the pay [undecipherable] of the Commanding Officers & the pay of the men[undecipherable] Officers & Privates of the said Detachment for the month of August 1798 [undecipherable] sum is to be paid to [undecipherable] Theodore [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who is to be held accountable for the due applications thereof — Pay of the Union for 1798 607.96 forage of Officers 6.— [undecipherable] 613.96 W Simmons Acct. [undecipherable] The Sec. of War — Appl. 2131

Type

Author's Letterbook Copy

Description

Certification that $10.77 is due Lieutenant Theodore Meminger of the 2nd Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, being the expense of John E. Morrison and two men pursuing John Doyle and John M. Donnel, deserters from the detachment at Mud Island Fort.

Date

09/03/1798

Author

William Simmons

Recipient

James McHenry

Sent from

Accountants Office

Repository

National Archives and Records Administration

Collection

Report Books of the Accountant of the War Department, Apr 14, 1795-Dec 31, 1817. (RG217)

Document number

1798090321055

Page start

227

Notable persons

James McHenry

William Simmons

John E. Morrison

Lieutenant Theodore Meminger

2nd Regiment

Artillerists and Engineers

detachment

deserters

accountant

Secretary of War

John Doyle

John M. Donnel

Notable locations

Accountants Office

Mud Island Fort

Notable items

pay

pursuing deserters

desertion

expenses