Certification of payments; Detachment of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Wolcot under command of Major Lewis Tousard
Document 1799Certification of payments; $434.63 pay to detachment of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Wolcot, Rhode Island under command of Major Lewis Tousard.
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Accountants Office
April 13th 1799
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable]
Freeman the sum of One thousand five hundred & eighty
eight Dollars and eighty nine Cents, being the balance due
to him on settlement of his account, including his pay
Forage and Subsistence as Major of Artillerists and Engineers
from the 1st October 1797 to 31 March 1799, and his Salary
and expenses as agent for the War Department from the
13 October 1797 to the 27 September 1798 conformably to the
Instructions from the Secretary of War dated the 16th of October
1797 —
[undecipherable] Simmons
[Acct C.]
Dolls 1588.89
The Secy of War
Accountants Office
April 16 1799
I Certify that there is now in the Troops stationed
at Fort Devise under the command of [undecipherable] Norton the
sum of Two hundred four Dollars & twenty eight Cents, being the pay
of himself, the non commissioned officers & Recruits for the months
of January February — march 1799 —
[undecipherable] Wagner
Payg to Army Drs 604.28.
[undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $434.63 pay to detachment of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Wolcot, Rhode Island under command of Major Lewis Tousard.
Date
04/11/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1799041121152
Page start
405
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Captain William Littlefield
Lieutenant George Ross
Surgeon's Mate Thomas Tillinghast
John S. Dexter
supervisor Providence Rhode Island
detachment
artillerists and engineers
Major Lewis Tousard
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Providence
Rhode Island
Fort Wolcott
Fort Wolcot
Accountants Office
Notable items
command
pay

