Certification of payments; Captain William McRea, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
Document 1799Certification of payments; $172.62 to Captain William McRea, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, for pay and subsistence.
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Department of War
Accountants Office
April the 16th 1799
I Certify that there is due to a Company of the second Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, under the command of Captain Lemuel Gates, the sum of One thousand three hundred sixty five Dollars and thirty two Cents; being for the pay of himself, Lieutenant George W. Duncan, and the non commissioned Officers and Privates of the said Company from 1st December 1798 to the 28th February 1799 - which sum is to be transmitted to Jonathan Jackson supervisor at Boston to be by him paid to the said Captn Gates, who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof,
W Simmons
Acctt
Dolls 1365. 32.
The Secretary of War Wt 3943.
Accountants Office
April 16th 1799
I Certify that there is due to William McRea Captain in the second Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers the sum of One hundred and seventy two Dollars, and sixty two Cents, being for balance of his pay and subsistence from June 1798 the date of his acceptance to 31st
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March 1799, which sum is to be transmitted to John Fitzgerald Collector at Alexandria and by him paid to the said Captm Rea.
W. Simmons
Acctt
Pay of the Army 1799 Dr 120.—
Subsistence Dr 1798... 8. 7
Ditto... 1799... 44. 55
Dolls 172. 62
The Secretary of War
Accountants Office
April 16th 1799
I Certify that there is due to Jonathan Rhea the sum of [underline: Sixty dollars], being for his compensation and expences in making Contracts of Articles for the Posts of Rendezvous in New Jersey to wit, Hackensack Elizabethtown, Brunswick Trenton, Burlington and Woodbury, including time drawing &Copying articles of agreement &c conformably to a letter from the Secretary of War dated 4th April 1799 —
Dolls 60.—
W. Simmons
Acctt
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payments; $172.62 to Captain William McRea, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, for pay and subsistence.
Date
04/16/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1799041621152
Page start
413
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
John Fitzgerald
supervisor Alexandria Virginia
Captain William McRea
2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountants Office
Alexandria
Virginia
Notable items
pay
subsistence

