Certification of payments; troops stationed at West Point under command of Captain George Ingersoll
Document 1799Certification of payments; $3171.81 pay, forage, subsistence, hospital department and bounties for soldiers stationed at West Point under command of Captain George Ingersoll.
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Accountants Office
April 15 1799
I Certify that there is due to the Troops stationed at West Point under the command of Captain George Ingersoll the sum of [underline: Three thousand one hundred and seventy one dollars and eighty one Cents] being for the pay forage and Subsistence of the commissioned Officers and for the pay of the non commissioned Officers and Privates up to the 31st March 1799, and for retained bounty due to five recruits — which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York to be by him paid to Captain Nehemiah Freeman Temporary Pay Master at West Point who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof —
Wm Simmons
Acct D
Pay of the Army for 98 Drs 48.39
Do . . . . . 99 2540.26
2588.65
Subsistence of do . 98 . . . 162.44
Do . . . . . . 97 . . . 330.72
493.16
Forage of Officers . . . . . . . . . . . 36.—
Hospital Department . . . . . . 16.—
Bounties to Soldiers . . . . . . . . . 38.—
Dollars 3171. 81
The Secretary of War — 3944
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $3171.81 pay, forage, subsistence, hospital department and bounties for soldiers stationed at West Point under command of Captain George Ingersoll.
Date
04/13/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1799041321352
Page start
409
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Nehemiah Freeman, temporary paymaster West Point New York
accountant
command
Captain George Ingersoll
Secretary of War
hospital department
soldiersl
Notable locations
Accountants Office
West Point
New York
Notable items
forage
subsistence
bounties

