Certification of payment; troops stationed at West Point under command of Captain George Ingersoll
Document 1799Certification of payment; $1343 to troops stationed at West Point under command of Captain George Ingersoll, for pay and forage.
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Accountants Office
[undecipherable] 1799
I Certify that there is due to the troops stationed at [undecipherable] Point since the reenlistment of [undecipherable] being [undecipherable] the sum of Fourteen [undecipherable] thirty [undecipherable] come & twenty [undecipherable] being for pay & forage to the [Commissioned?] Officers & [undecipherable] the non commissioned Officers & Privates for the month of April 1799 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish supervisor at New York to [undecipherable] by him paid to Nehemiah Dunham Temporary Pay master at [undecipherable] Point who is to be held accountable for [undecipherable] the due application thereof —
P. Higon
[undecipherable]
[marginalia on left margin: undecipherable]
Pay of the Army 1817.90
Forage of Officers 13. —
Hospital [undecipherable] 1. —
[undecipherable] 1345.90
The Secretary of War
May 13 1799
I Certify that there is due to James Caldwell [undecipherable] the sum of One hundred & twenty five Dollars being for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] from 1 [undecipherable] to 1 May 1799 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] — which sum is [payable?] to [Montgomery?] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [Michael?] G. Hoover Military Store Keeper,
[undecipherable] 145. — W. Higon
[undecipherable] )
The Secretary of War
[undecipherable] 237
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $1343 to troops stationed at West Point under command of Captain George Ingersoll, for pay and forage.
Date
05/13/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799051321455
Page start
7
Notable persons
James McHenry
Peter Hagner
Nicholas Fish
supervisor New York
Nehemiah Freeman
Captain George Ingersoll
troops
accountant
Secretary of War
command
principal clerk
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
West Point
New York
Notable items
pay
forage

