Certification of payments; detachment of 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers and a detachment of infantry stationed at Fort McHenry under command of Captain Staats Morris
Document 1798Certification of payments; $541.91 to detachment of 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers and a detachment of infantry stationed at Fort McHenry, Baltimore under command of Captain Staats Morris.
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Accountants Office
Novem 14 1798.
I Certify that there is due to a Detachment of the 1 Regt of Artilly & Engrs stationed at West Point the sum of eight hundred sixteen Dollars & [undecipherable] being for the pay & forage of the commissioned Officers & the pay of the non commissioned Officers & Privates of the said Detachment for October 1798 & for bounty paid by Lieut [undecipherable] to 1 Recruit, & for retained bounty due to six Recruits, which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fisk Supervisor New York to be by him paid to Lt Neht Freeman at West Point who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof
Pay of the Army 744. 11
Forage of Officers 15. —
Bounties to Soldiers 55. —
Dolls 816. 11
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $541.91 to detachment of 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers and a detachment of infantry stationed at Fort McHenry, Baltimore under command of Captain Staats Morris.
Date
11/14/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798111421152
Page start
266
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Lieutenant Samuel Dyson
Lieutenant Philip Landais
detachment
1st Regiment
Artillerists and Engineers
infantry
Captain Staats Morris
command
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Fort McHenry
Baltimore
Maryland
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay


