Certification of payments; detachment of 1st Regiment of Infantry stationed at West Point under direction of George Fleming, Military Storekeeper for the service of the Ordnance Department
Document 1799Certification of payments; $83 to detachment of 1st Regiment of Infantry stationed at West Point under direction of George Fleming, Military Storekeeper for the service of the Ordnance Department
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Accountants Office
February 20 1799
I certify that there is due to the troops [underline: under the command of] Captain [undecipherable] Signette the sum of One thousand five hundreds — ninety Dollars & seventy nine Cents being for the pay and forage of the commissioned Officers and for the pay of the non commissioned Officers and Privates up to the 31 of January 1799. amount found to be 23 Cent which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York to be by him paid to Nehemiah Horsman lieutenant & Temporary Pay master at West Point who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof —
W Simmons
Accounty
Pay of the Army for 1797 . . 47.30
Ditto — do — 1799 . 1380.79 . . . . . 1428.9
Forage T Officers . . . . . . 15.—
Bounties of [undecipherable] . . . . . 136.—
Dolrs 1580.79
The Secretary of War —
No 3763
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $83 to detachment of 1st Regiment of Infantry stationed at West Point under direction of George Fleming, Military Storekeeper for the service of the Ordnance Department
Date
02/14/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1799021421352
Page start
345
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
accountant
George Fleming
military storekeeper
1st Infantry Regiment
detachment
ordnance department
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
New York
West Point
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay

