Certification of payments; Thomas Hughes for work done on gun carriages
Document 1798Certification of payments; $148.50 to Thomas Hughes for work done on gun carriages and superintending blacksmiths employed at West Point New York.
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for two subscriptions for said amounts which sum is to be transmitted
to Charles Scott supervisor at [undecipherable] to be by him paid to the
said Curson Scott who is to be held accountable for the due
application thereof.
W. Simmons
Acct Dept War
Pay of the army 179.50
Subsistce officers 12.50
Indian 187.10
The Secretary of War
No 3507
Accountants Office
December 3, 1798
I Certify that there is due to Mathias Whithar late a
Musician at West Island Fort the sum of Six Dollars sixty six per [undecipherable]
for the Months of March & April 1795 after which time he [undecipherable] ammunition
on board the Frigate & I having been transferred by order of the
Secretary of War which sum is payable to Charles Brearwell [undecipherable: attorney] of
said Whithar.
W. Simmons
Acct
Pay of the army 10.
The Secretary of War No 3505
Accountants Office
December 3 1798
I Certify that it appears by the returns [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Samuel
[undecipherable] of the 3 Regt of Infantry that sundry articles of Clothing were
due to Francis Slaughter late a Sergeant in a Detachment of said
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $148.50 to Thomas Hughes for work done on gun carriages and superintending blacksmiths employed at West Point New York.
Date
11/29/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798112921252
Page start
275
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
George Fleming
military storekeeper, West Point
New York
Thomas Hughes
accountant
Secretary of War
blacksmith
Notable locations
Accountants Office
West Point
New York
Notable items
gun carriage
superintending
work
pay

