Receipts received
Document 1799Informs Ensign Boote that the Accountant's Office has received his letter enclosing receipts for the hire of musicians. Mentions Nicholas Fish, Supervisor of New York.
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Department of War
Accountants Office
March 7th 1794
Sir
I have receiv'd your letter dated 11th Inst. enclosing sundry duplicate receipts for the hire of Music &c which will be filed subject to future Examination.
I have also receiv'd your Muster & Pay Rolls for the month of February 1794 amounting agreeably to your Statement to ......... Dolrs 209.30
from which has been deducted your Subsistence, untill the
Contracts of Rations for the present year can be ascertained ......... 11.76
Dollars 197.54
leaving a balance of one hundred & Ninety seven Dollars & fifty four cents, which sum you will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq. Supervisor at New York — granting the necessary receipts to be accountable for the due application thereof —
I am
Sir
your Hble Servt
[signature: J. [undecipherable] Simmons]
Ensign William R Boote
New Brunswick —
[Address leaf:]
[Department of War
Accountants Office]
Ensign William R. Boote
New Brunswick
New Jersey
[undecipherable: postal notation, right margin]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Informs Ensign Boote that the Accountant's Office has received his letter enclosing receipts for the hire of musicians. Mentions Nicholas Fish, Supervisor of New York.
Date
03/07/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Dept of War, Accounts
Collection
Document number
1799030721001
Page start
1
Notable persons
William Rowland Boote
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
musician
Notable locations
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Accountant's Office
New York
Notable items
Muster roll
pay roll
music
subsistence

