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.
100%
⇣No human transcription currently available for this document.
This transcription was generated by machine using Anthropic's Claude Code (a mix of sonnet and opus models). It may contain errors or inaccuracies. Please verify against the document image. Learn more about our generative AI methodology.
Accountants' Office
May 14.th 1799
I Certify that there is due to John
Collins late a Private in Capt. James Taylors, Troop of Dragoons
the sum of four dollars & 41/100, being for sundry articles of
Clothing due him at the time of his discharge, agreeably to
a certificate of Capt. James Taylor —
P. Hagner
Pr. Clk
Doll: 14. 41
The Secretary of War
4040.
May 16.th 1799
I Certify that there is due to Constant—
Freeman Major 1st Regiment of Artillerists & Engineers the
sum of Eighty three Dollars & 15/100 fifteen Cents, being for his
pay forage & Subsistence for April 1799 —
P. Hagner
Pr. Clk.
Pay of the Army — 55.—
Forage of Officers — 10.—
Subst. of the Army — 18 - 15
Dollars 83 - 15
The Sec.y of War
4051
May 16.th 1799
I Certify that there is due to Meriwether Lewis Lieut.
in the 1st Reg.t of Infantry the sum of seventy two Dollars & 22/100, being the
balance of his recruiting & Contingent Account which sum is to be
to be transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor Richmond to be
by him paid to the said Lieut.t Lewis —
W. Simmons
Acct.t
Dol: 72. 20. 2/0 & Exp. in 99
The Secretary of War 4067
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

