Certification of payment; Private John Lewis, 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers
Document 1799Certification of payment; $9.37 to Private John Lewis, 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers, pay up to his discharge for inability, including pay and subsistence traveling from West Point to the place of his residence.
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Department of War
Accountants Office
May the 23d 1799
I Certify, that there is due to the Troops stationed at Fort Norfolk under the command of Captain Richard Blackburn, the sum of two hundred & thirty Dollars, being for pay formerly due noncommissioned [undecipherable] & John Simmons, Surgeons Mate William Turnwell obtaining [undecipherable] for pay of the non commissioned Officers & Privates for the month of April 1799 which sum is to be transmitted to Edward Carrington supervisor at Richmond to be by him paid to the said Lieut. [undecipherable] who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof
Pay of the Army 664— W. Simmons
Forage of officers 6— Rect'y
Due 830—
The sig. of Nore
any
May 24 1799
I Certify that there is due to Samuel Henley the sum of One hundred & [undecipherable] Dollars & [undecipherable] and being for balance of his pay and Subsistence as follows in [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] Novr 1798 to the 11th May 1799 with the amount in conformity to accounts from the secretary of war of [undecipherable] Jan —
W. Simmons
Rect'y
[undecipherable: one additional line]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $9.37 to Private John Lewis, 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers, pay up to his discharge for inability, including pay and subsistence traveling from West Point to the place of his residence.
Date
05/27/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799052721652
Page start
18
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Private John Lewis
1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
West Point
New York
Notable items
pay
subsistence

