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 13 1799
I Certify that there is due to Samuel Fitzgeral Artizeer and Thomas Edwards Private in the first Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers the sum of Sixty Dollars being for their pay from 1 December 1793 to the 31 March 1799 — which sum is payable to Samuel Lucas Clerk in the War Office of Genr. —
Mr. Simmons
Pay of the Army for 98 13— Acct
Ditto ......... 97 45—
Do 68—
The Secretary of War.
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Accountants Office
April 13 1799
I Certify that there is due to Altemas Edwards late a Private in [strikethrough: Capt] Lamsons Company of Infantry, the sum of Forty one Dollars & thirty three Cents, being for his pay from 1 January to 11 Novr the day he was [strikethrough: Discharged] Discharged, which sum is payable to Abigal Edwards Widow of said Altemas Edwards —
W. Simmons
Acct
Pay of the Army 98 To 41.33
The Secretary of War.
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

