Certification of payments; Major Thomas H. Cushing, 1st Regiment of Infantry and Inspector
Document 1798Certification of payments; $145.06 to Major Thomas H. Cushing, 1st Regiment of Infantry and Inspector, for pay, forage and subsistence.
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Accountants Office
Novem. 29th 1798
I Certify that there is due to Tho.s Hughes the sum of One hundred forty eight dollars & fifty cents being per diem work done to Gun carriages & superintending the Blacksmiths employed at West Point between 6 May & 30th of September 1798. which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor New York to be by him paid to George Fleming Ordnance & Military Store keeper at West Point who is to to be held accountable for the due application thereof —
W. Simmons
Acct [undecipherable]
[Dr 148.50 Ordnance Dept. in 98.]
The Secy of War —
Wt 3486.
Accountants Office
November 30th 1798.
I Certify that there is due to Thomas H Cushing Major of the 1st Regt of Infantry and Inspector the sum of One hundred forty five Dollars & six Cents, being per his pay forage & Subsistence for the month of November 1798 & for the difference of his Subsistence from 1 August to 31st October 1798 —
Pay to the Army ... 75. —
Forage ......... 20. —
Subsistence 50. 6
— Dollars 145. 6
W. Simmons
Acct G. W.
The Secretary of War.
No 3478
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $145.06 to Major Thomas H. Cushing, 1st Regiment of Infantry and Inspector, for pay, forage and subsistence.
Date
11/30/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798113021352
Page start
276
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Major Thomas H. Cushing
1st Regiment of Infantry
accountant
Secretary of War
Inspector
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
forage
subsistence


