Certification of payment; detachment of 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Mifflin under command of Ebenezer Massey
Document 1799Certification of payment; $191.03 to detachment of 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Mifflin under command of Ebenezer Massey, for pay and forage.
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Accountants Office
June 1st 1799
I Certify that there is due to Capt. [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the sum of Sixty six dollars being
do more, paid by him on a [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
pursuant in pursuance of a letter from the Secretary of War to
the Secretary of the Treasury for a letter from the latter to the
said Capt [undecipherable: Wadsworth] dated [undecipherable] 1799 which sum is to be
transmitted to [undecipherable] Washington to be paid by him to
the said Capt [undecipherable: Wadsworth] —
W. Simmons
[undecipherable]
Dols 66. —
The Secretary of War
1102
June 3d 1799
I Certify that there is due to a Detachment
of the 1st Regt of Artillerists & Engrs Stationed at [undecipherable] in
under the command of [undecipherable], [undecipherable] the sum of One
hundred ninety one Dollars & [undecipherable], being for pay due [undecipherable]
Lt [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] also [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] each having for [undecipherable]
extra pay of the non commissioned officers & Privates forming [undecipherable]
which sum is to be paid to the [undecipherable] Lt [undecipherable] who is to
be held accountable for the use application thereof —
Pay of the Army — 185. 8
[undecipherable] — 6. —
$ 191. 8
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $191.03 to detachment of 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Mifflin under command of Ebenezer Massey, for pay and forage.
Date
06/03/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799060321755
Page start
22
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons: Lieutenant Robert W. Osborne
Surgeon's Mate John R. Lynch
Ebenezer Massey
1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers
command
detachment
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Fort Mifflin
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
forage

