Certification of payment; John Foncin, Temporary Engineer for expenses from Philadelphia to Baltimore
Document 1799Certification of payment; $64.15 to John Foncin, Temporary Engineer for pay, subsistence, and expenses from Philadelphia to Baltimore.
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Accountants Office
May 31 1799
I Certify that there is due to John Doncan Temporary Examiner the sum of Sixty four Dollars & [undecipherable] being balance of his pay & [undecipherable] to 31 May 1799 embracing his expences from Philadelphia to Baltimore, agreeable to his instructions from the Secretary [undecipherable], which sum is to be transmitted to Joam Kilty Supervisor Baltimore to be by him paid to the said John Doncan —
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] W. Simmons
[undecipherable] Acctt
The Secretary — [undecipherable]
May the 31 1799
I Certify that there is due to George W. [undecipherable] Captn in the 12th Regt of Infantry the sum of Fourteen dollars & two [undecipherable] for his Subsistence for May 1799 —
Subsistence of the army 14. 4
W. Simmons
Acctt
The Secy of War
June 1st 1799
I Certify that there is due to Henry Burr [undecipherable] the sum of two thousand ninety four Dollars, being balance due him for issues under more [undecipherable] Hospital Stores, supplied the several at Elizabethtown maryland under the command of [undecipherable] between 1 January & 29 march 1799, which sum is payable to his brother George Burr. [his proxy]
W. Simmons
Acctt
[undecipherable] Drawn 1834 —
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $64.15 to John Foncin, Temporary Engineer for pay, subsistence, and expenses from Philadelphia to Baltimore.
Date
05/31/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799053121755
Page start
21
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
John Kilty
supervisor Baltimore
accountant
John Foncin
temporary engineer
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Baltimore
Maryland
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
subsistence
expenses
travel

