Certification of payments; Captain Moses White, Paymaster for Colonel Moses Hazens Regiment
Document 1799Certification of payments; to Captain Moses White, Paymaster for Colonel Moses Hazens Regiment.
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Dollars & Seventy five Cents, being for balance of his account for Recruiting, which sum is to be transmitted to John Hughes Collector at Carlisle to be by him paid to the said Capt Irvine —
Drs 160. 75 W. Simmons
Acct
The Secretary of War . 3643.
Accountants Office
January 15 1799
I Certify that there is due to Charles Smith Ensign in the 1 Regt the sum of Seventy four Dollars & forty cents, being for his pay & Subsistence for November & December 1798 —
Pay of the Army 50.— W Simmons
Subsiste of ditto 24. 40 Acct
Drs 74. 40
The Secretary of War —
Accountants Office
January 24 1799
I Certify that on settlement of an account with Capt Moses White Pay master to Col. Moses Hazens account on file in this O[ffice] the following reservation was made. "There is also the sum of seven thousand five Hundred & seventy seven Dollars in old Emissions which will be credited to Capt White if he produces certificates from the several States to which the men belonged that he paid it & that it has been charged to the men in the Settlements of their accounts of depreciation" — He has pro[duced] two Certificates from Joseph Howell acting Pay master General dated 1[?] February 1792 – Certifying that the sum of three thousand four hundred ninety five & one third Dollars was deducted from the depreciation of sundry Officers & men of the quota of Penns[ylvania] Drs 3495.33
And from sundry Officers & Privates of the quota of
Virginia 448.—
Drs 3943. 33
Making in the whole three thousand nine hundred forty three Dollars & one third old Emissions – valued to Specie at the rate of 15 dollars for one, being the same rate of Exchange that the balance from him was liquidated at – leaves a balance due to Capt White on the above Statement in Specie the sum of fifty two Dollars fifty five cents —
W Simmons
Acct
to the accounting Officers of the Treasury —
Accountants Office
January 26 1799
I Certify that Samuel Weeks agent of Fortifications at Portland in Maine is entitled to a credit on the Books of this Office, for amount of Expenditures made by him on account of the Fortifications at the aforesaid place pr account Vouchers examined [undecipherable] this day 3364.6
that he is charged on the Books of this Office with, Account No 31[undecipherable], advanced him the [undecipherable] Sep. 179[undecipherable] on account . . . 1200.—
Leaving a balance due him of Two thousands three hundred Sixty four Dollars & Six Cents 2364.6
Drs 3364. 6
The Secretary of War W Simmons
Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; to Captain Moses White, Paymaster for Colonel Moses Hazens Regiment.
Date
01/24/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1799012421052
Page start
326
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
accountant
Secretary of War
paymaster
Captain Moses White
Colonel Moses Hazen
Regiment
Joseph Howell
officers
privates
Treasury Department
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Virginia
Notable items
pay
emissions
settlements
certificates
exchange
liquidated

