Certification of payments; troops stationed at Fort Norfolk under Captain Richard L Blackburn
Document 1798Certification of payments; $2906 for troops stationed at Fort Norfolk, Virginia under Captain Richard L Blackburn.
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Accountants Office
December 22d 1798
I Certify that there is due to John Stot [undecipherable: fourteen] the sum of his letters being the reward allowed for apprehending & delivering at fort Mifflin agreeably to the requests of Lt Theodore Meminger of the U. States to [undecipherable] McCanlock & [undecipherable] deserters from said Fort.
W. Simmons
Audt Offce
$r 10.
The Sy of War No 3550
Accountants Office
December 22d 1798
I Certify that there is due to John M. Buell Major of the 2d Regt of Infantry the sum of four hundred five Dollars & fifty 6/100 Cents being for his pay subsistence &postage from 1 July to 28 November 1798 inclusive which sum is to be transmitted to John Christophel at Muskingum Council to be by him paid to the said Major Buell —
W. Simmons
Audt
[Inspr of the Army 350. —
Subsiste of Officers 15. 5/
Postage — 50
$405. 55]
[undecipherable] of War
2555.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $2906 for troops stationed at Fort Norfolk, Virginia under Captain Richard L Blackburn.
Date
12/20/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798122021152
Page start
294
Notable persons
troops
Secretary of War
accountant
Captain Richard L. Blackburn
James McHenry
William Simmons
William Barnwell
Edward Carrington
supervisor Richmond Virginia
Lieutenant Ferdinand Claiborne
Notable locations
Fort Norfolk
Virginia
Richmond
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay

