Certification of payments; Ensign Meriwether Lewis, 1st Regiment of Infantry
Document 1799Certification of payments; Ensign Meriwether Lewis, 1st Regiment of Infantry, $259.10 for pay and subsistence.
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is to be held accountable for the due application of the same ~
W. Simmons
Acctt
Pay of the Army [underline: Dolls 632.72]
The Secretary of War ~
3310
Accountants Office
March 13, 1799
I Certify that there is due to Patrick Wholand late a Private in Captain Richard Sparks Company 3rd Regiment of Infantry the sum of six Dollars and ninety one cents, being for sundry articles of Clothing [&]Certificate of said Capt. Sparks
[underline: Dolls 6.91]
W. Simmons
Acctt
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
March 15, 1799
I Certify that there is due to Meriwether Lewis Ensign in the 1 Regiment of Infantry the sum of two hundred and fifty nine Dollars & ten Cents, being for his pay from 1 August to the 31 December 1798, and for his Subsistence from the 1 December 1797 to 31 December 1798 which sum is to be paid as follows — One hundred & forty five Dollars & eighty Cents, to Messrs J. Davis & Co: & one hundred and thirteen Dollars & thirty Cents, to Mr John T. Gilmers & Order of said Ensign Lewis ~
W. Simmons
Acctt
Pay of the Army for [undecipherable] Do 125.-
Subsistence Do for 97 Do 9.30
Dolls . . . 98 124.00
[undecipherable] 134.10
[underline: Dollars 250.10]
The Secretary of War ~
Accountants Office
March 15, 1799
I Certify that there is due to Cornet William C Rogers the sum of Fifty seven dollars and fifty two Cents, being for his pay, forage and subsistence from 10 January, the date of his acceptance to 23 February 1799 ~
W. Simmons
Acctt
Pay of the Army Dolls 35.43
Forage [undecipherable] . . . 5.51
Subsistence do . . . 13.58
[underline: Dollars 57.52]
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; Ensign Meriwether Lewis, 1st Regiment of Infantry, $259.10 for pay and subsistence.
Date
03/15/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1799031521252
Page start
376
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Messrs J. Davis and Co
John Gilmer
Ensign Meriwether Lewis
1st Infantry Regiment
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
subsistence

