Certification of payments; Private John Watkins in Captain Greatons Company, 2d Sub Legion, following time he was taken prisoner by Indians
Document 1799Certification of payments; $97 pay Private John Watkins in Captain Greatons Company, 2d Sub Legion, following time he was taken prisoner by Indians; includes a reasonable allowance for him to return to his home town.
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Accountants Office
March 1 1799
I Certify that there is due to John Fenner the sum of fifty six dollars being for his services from the 1 to 28 February exclusively employed in drawing the State on book on the Artillery conformably to a letter from the Secretary of War dated 4th January 1799, and the account admitted by him —
W Simmons
Acctt
Dollar 56 —
The Secretary of War —
Accountants Office
February 28 1799
I Certify that there is due to the Estate of George [undecipherable] late a Major in [the] late Orleans Company [undecipherable] by Ensign Hugh [undecipherable] the sum of [undecipherable] nine Dollars + seventeen cents being for his pay from 1 January to 26 June 1795 the day he [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and such sum is payable to Mary [undecipherable] Administratrix on the said Estate —
W Simmons
Acctt
[undecipherable] of the Army [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
to Secretary of War —
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $97 pay Private John Watkins in Captain Greatons Company, 2d Sub Legion, following time he was taken prisoner by Indians; includes a reasonable allowance for him to return to his home town.
Date
02/26/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1799022621352
Page start
352
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Private John Watkins
Captain Richard H Greaton
Indians
company
2nd Sub Legion
prisoner
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
home town
Notable items
Indian captivity
pay
allowance

