Certification of payments; detachment of recruits under Ensign William Boote
Document 1798Certification of payments; $187.10 pay to Boote, non commissioned officers and detachment of recruits under Ensign William Boote at New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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part the act, entitled 'An act to ascertain & fix the military Establishment of the United States' to all Officers deranged under the Act 'To ascertain & fix the military establishment of the United States' agreeably to a list of Officers deranged received from the Secretary of War, which sum is payable to Sam[uel] Price per order of said Campbell —
Wc Simmons
Acct Dept War
$r156.— Pay of the Army
121. 21 Subsistce Ditto
277. 21
The Secy of War No 3499
Accountants Office
December 4th 1798.
I Certify that there is due to Frederick Sprig Assistt Military Store keeper at West Point the sum of sixty Dollars, being for his pay from 1st October to 30 November 1798 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York to be by him paid to the said Frederick Sprig —
W. Simmons
Acct Dept War
Doll. 60 —
The Secretary of War No 3510
Accountants Office
December 4 1798
I Certify that there is due to the Detachmt of Recruits at New Brunswick under the command of Ensign William H. B[undecipherable] of One hundred eighty, seven Dollars & [undecipherable] being for the pay of himself [&] the commissioned Officers & Privates of said Detachment for the month of [undecipherable]
1798 & for his subsistence for said period which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish supervisor at New York to be by him paid to the said Ensign B[undecipherable] who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof;
W. Simmons
Acct Dept War
Pay of the Army ... 174.50
Subsistce of Officers 12.60
Dollars 187.10
The Secretary of War. No 3509
Accountants Office
December 5 1798.
I Certify that there is due to Mathias Whiteline [undecipherable] Musician at Mud Island Fort the sum of [underline: Ten Dollars] being for his pay for the months of March & April 1798 after which time his pay commenced on board the Frigate U.S. having been transferred by order of the Secretary of War which sum is payable to Charles [undecipherable] pr order of said Whiteline.
W. Simmons
Acct
Pay of the Army 10
The Secretary of War No 3505
Accountants Office
December 6 1798.
I Certify that it appears by the muster rolls of Ensn Samuel Atkinson of the 2nd 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; $187.10 pay to Boote, non commissioned officers and detachment of recruits under Ensign William Boote at New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Date
12/04/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798120421252
Page start
278
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Ensign William Boote
non commissioned officers
detachment
recruits
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
New Brunswick
New Jersey


