Certification of payments; due to James McHenry for expenses incurred on a journey to New York for the purpose of viewing the harbor of New York and the plan for its defense
Document 1798Certification of payments; $77 due to James McHenry for expenses incurred on a journey to New York for the purpose of viewing the harbor of New York and the plan for its defense, June 1798.
100%
⇣
No human transcription currently available for this document.
This transcription was generated by machine using Anthropic's Claude Code (model sonnet 4.6). It may contain errors or inaccuracies. Please verify against the document image. Learn more about our generative AI methodology.
Accountant's 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 [underline: ninety five Dollars &c] being for expences 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 —
Drs 95. 90.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $77 due to James McHenry for expenses incurred on a journey to New York for the purpose of viewing the harbor of New York and the plan for its defense, June 1798.
Date
12/13/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798121321252
Page start
289
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
New York
harbor
Accountants Office
Notable items
expenses
pay
viewing plan for defense of New York harbor
journey