Certification of payments; Jean Foncin for completing sundry drafts of furnaces for the purposes of heating shot for guns of Charleston
Document 1798Certification of payments; $60 to Jean Foncin for completing sundry drafts of furnaces for the purposes of heating shot for iron battering rams for the harbor Charleston South Carolina.
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Accountants Office,
December 13th 1798.
I Certify that agreeably to account rendered by J McHenry Secretary of War there is due to him the sum of ninety four Dollars & [undecipherable] being for expenses incurred by him in the Month of July 1798, in a journey to mount Vernon, to the present Commander in Chief, on business relative to his Commission —
D 95. 40
No 2524
Accountants Office
December 13th 1798
I Certify that there is due to James McHenry Secretary of War agreeably to an account stated by him the sum of Sixty seven Dollars & [undecipherable] being the amount of expenses incurred by him in a journey to New York in the month of June 1798 for the purpose of viewing the Harbour of New York and a plan for its defence —
An Cy. 22
W Simmons
Acct
[In Secretary of War]
No 2523
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $60 to Jean Foncin for completing sundry drafts of furnaces for the purposes of heating shot for iron battering rams for the harbor Charleston South Carolina.
Date
12/12/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798121221252
Page start
284
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Jean Foncin
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Charleston
South Carolina
harbor
Accountants Office
Notable items
drafts of furnaces
heating shot
iron battering rams
pay

