Certification of payment to Lieutenant Meriwether Lewis
Document 1799Certification of payment; $72.20 to Lieutenant Meriwether Lewis, 1st Regiment of Infantry, balance of contingent and recruiting account.
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Accountants Office
May 16 1799
I Certify that it appears by a certificate
of [undecipherable] filed here of the Militia called out to Suppress
an Insurrection on the Western frontiers of Pennsylvania
that there is due to Robert Moffett Ensign in the 43d Regt
[undecipherable] of the State of Maryland the sum of thirteen dollars,
& Do being for his expenses while marching four [undecipherable] for
said [undecipherable] on their march to Suppress the said insurrec-
-tion, the vouchers for which were lost or mislaid by the said
[undecipherable] which sum is payable [undecipherable] to John Mills
Supervisor at Baltimore to be by him paid to the said Ensign
Moffett —
M. Simmons
Acct
[Jost 13.17]
The Secy of War
[4072]
May 13 1799
I Certify that there is due to Brunswick Snuggs
[undecipherable] Volunteer [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] at West Point, the sum of [undecipherable]
Dollars being for his pay for March & April 1799 which
Sum is to be paid to William [undecipherable] patron of said
Brunswick Snuggs —
J. Harper
By [undecipherable]
[Insert Col. appr. Dec. 00 —]
The Secretary of War
[4082]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $72.20 to Lieutenant Meriwether Lewis, 1st Regiment of Infantry, balance of contingent and recruiting account.
Date
05/16/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799051621655
Page start
11
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Lieutenant Meriwether Lewis
Edward Carrington
supervisor Richmond Virginia
1st Infantry Regiment
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Virginia
Richmond
Accountant's Office
Notable items
contingent
pay
expenses
recruiting
account

