Certification of payments; troops stationed at Fort Mifflin under command of Captain Joseph Elliott
Document 1799Certification of payments; $660.83 to troops stationed at Fort Mifflin under command of Captain Joseph Elliott, for forage and pay.
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Department of War
Accountants Office
February 20th 1799
I Certify that there is due Capt Horton on the late of the [undecipherable] United States, Agent the sum of five hundred sixty five Dollars 1 [undecipherable] cents, being the balance due him on settlement of his accounts from the commencement of his service in the year 1792 to the 1st January 1796 the date of his resignation which sum includes the accountant him by Act of Congress of the 15 February 1792, as ration due to the late Major Fort Payne from 16 July 1792 to 14 December 1796 and of his Recruiting payments to his Detachment at his own, any reimbursement —
Dollars 665.30 W Simmons
Actt
The Secretary of War
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Accountants Office
February 20th 1799
I Certify that there is due to John Nugent late a Private on the Detachment of Infantry stationed at Fort Niagara under the command of Brigt Alexander Thompson his sum of four acting — 1 fifty Cents being for bleeding agreeably to directions of Captn Thompson —
Dolls 4.50 W Simmons
Actt
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $660.83 to troops stationed at Fort Mifflin under command of Captain Joseph Elliott, for forage and pay.
Date
02/14/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1799021421252
Page start
343
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Lieutenant Theodore Meminger
Lieutenant Francis Gibson
Lieutenant Robert W. Osborne
surgeon's mate John R. Lynch
Captain Joseph Elliott
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Fort Mifflin
Pennsylvania
Notable items
pay
forage

