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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Savages per abstract & N° 495. which sum is to be paid to Lewis R[undecipherable]
Morris Attorney for Jesse Mathews Father & heir by Law to Sarah
Mathews
Pay of the Army 97. 18. — Mr Simmons
Acct.t
The Sec.t of War W.t 3521.
Accountants' Office
December 12. 1798
Agreeably to an account admitted by the Secretary of W[undecipherable: War]
there is due to Jean Foncin the sum of Sixty Dollars being for comple[undecipherable]
sundry drafts of furnaces for the purpose of heating Shot, for the dem[undecipherable]
of Iron battering guns for the Harbour of Charleston S° C°—
D.rs 60. W. Simmons
Acct. & W[undecipherable]
The Sec.y of War — N° 3329
Accountants Office
December 13. 1798
I Certify that there is due to Thomas Edwards, private in t[undecipherable: the]
Corps of Art.y & Eng.rs — waiter to major Lewis Toursard the sum of Twen[undecipherable: ty]
four Dollars being for his pay from the 1 July to which time he [undecipherable]
paid at Fort Mc[undecipherable] to the 30.th November 1798 which sum is [undecipherable]
able to major Lewis Toursard [undecipherable] order of said Edwards —
D.rs 24. —
N° 3523.
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


