Certification of payments; Major Lewis Tousard, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Document 1799Certification of payments; $57.08 Major Lewis Tousard, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers for settlement of account, recruiting account, and compensation for viewing fortifications at Newport Rhode Island.
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Accountants' Office
January 1, 1799
I Certify that there is due to Hartman Lutheriser Lieut 4th Regt of Infantry the sum of two hundred - three Dollars 49/100, being for his pay & subsistence from the 1 August the time he was last paid to by the paymaster, to the 31 December 1798 inclusively,
Pay ........ 150.—
Subsist.... 53. 49.
Drs 203. 49
Wm Simmons
Acct [undecipherable]
The Secretary of War
3572.
Accountants' Office
January 7, 1799
I Certify that there is due to Lewis Toüsard Major in the 1 Regt of A & E the sum of fifty seven Dollars Pr [undecipherable] being balance due him on settlement of his account current, embracing his Recruiting account & the amount allowed him in conformity to the Secretary of Wars letters dated the 9 & 31 December 1798 for his Compensation while employed in viewing the ground at New Port R. I. & laying down plans of the Fortifications to be erected there at —
Drs 57. 8. Bounties to Soldiers
Wm Simmons
Acct [undecipherable]
The Secretary of War 3577.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $57.08 Major Lewis Tousard, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers for settlement of account, recruiting account, and compensation for viewing fortifications at Newport Rhode Island.
Date
01/07/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1799010721052
Page start
308
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
1st Regiment
Artillerists and Engineers
Major Lewis Tousard
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
New Port
Rhode Island
fortifications
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
settlement
account
recruiting account
viewing fortifications

