Certification of payments; detachment of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point, New York
Document 1798Certification of payments; $709 for the detachment of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point for pay and forage.
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Accountants Office
October 23. 1798
I certify that there is due to Lt Philip [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] Regt of [undecipherable] to the sum of Sixty one Dollars being for his pay from the 28 June the date of his acceptance to the 30 September 1798.
Pay of the Army P 41 W Simmons
The Secretary of War Acct [undecipherable]
No 3333
Accountants Office
October 23. 1798
I certify that there is due to the troops stationed at Fort Congo under the command of Lieut Manning I Fischer the sum of five hundred & seventy Dollars being for his & their pay for the months of July August & September 1798 —
Pay of the Army for 1798 570. W Simmons
The Secy of War Acct [undecipherable]
No 3333
Accountants Office
October 24. 1798
I certify that there is due to Lieut Sam: late an Ensign on the 1st day of September the sum of two hundred sixty two Dollars & being for his pay from 25 August 1797 the date of his acceptance, to the 13 April[undecipherable] the date of his resignation from his subsist to the 14 January 179[undecipherable] —
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $709 for the detachment of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point for pay and forage.
Date
10/18/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798101821052
Page start
248
Notable persons
Secretary of War
artillerists and engineers
accountant
detachment
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Lieutenant Nehemiah Freeman
temporary paymaster
officers
soldiers
Notable locations
West Point
New York
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
forage
bounty

