Certification of payments; Ensign Meriwether Lewis
Document 1798Certification that $200 is due Ensign Meriwether Lewis, of the 1st Regiment of Infantry, being his pay for December 1797 through July 1798.
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Accountants Office
September 10th 1798.
I Certify that there is due to Wm Steele Lieut in the 2d Regt A+C late Surgeons Mate in the 1st [undecipherable] the sum of Ninety two dollars being for his pay and forage as Surgeons Mate from the 10th June 1798, and for his pay as Lieut from the 11th June the date of his acceptance to the 31st August 1798. which fund is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor New York to be by him paid to the said Lieut Steele.
Pay of the Army 90. Wm Simmons
Forage 2 Acct D. W.
Dr 92 —
The Secy of War — Wt 3207.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $200 is due Ensign Meriwether Lewis, of the 1st Regiment of Infantry, being his pay for December 1797 through July 1798.
Date
09/10/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798091021455
Page start
232
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Edward Carrington
Meriwether Lewis
supervisor Richmond
1st Infantry Regiment
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Virginia
Accountants Office
Richmond
Notable items
pay


