Certification of payment; Edmund Winchester, Contractor for rations, clothing, Quartermaster, and supplies
Document 1799Certification of payment; $38.28 to Edmund Winchester, Contractor for rations, clothing, Quartermaster, and supplies to garrison at Castle William Island, Boston Massachusetts.
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Accountants Office
June 7 1799
I Certify, that there is due to [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Capt [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the sum of two hundred ninety eight
Dollars & [undecipherable] being [undecipherable] his pay from 1 Dec[undecipherable]
after his substitution from 2 January 1799 to 21 May, which sum
is to be paid to John [undecipherable] Esqr [undecipherable]
W. Simmons
Actt
Pay of the army for [undecipherable] 20—
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] 88—
[undecipherable] do [undecipherable] 70[undecipherable]—
Doll 295 [undecipherable]
The Secy of War
[undecipherable]
June 2[undecipherable] 1798
I certify that there is due to a Detachment
of the 3d Regt [undecipherable] Infantry stationed at [undecipherable] under the command
of Lt William [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the sum of Three hundred seventy one
Dollars & [undecipherable] being for pay of the non commissioned officers & privates
of that Detachment for April & May 1799 which sum is to be
paid to Dr [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who is to be held accountable from
the due application thereof —
W Simmons
Actt
Pay of the army Doll 371.71
The Secy of War
[undecipherable]
June 2, 1799
I Certify that there is due to the troops at [undecipherable]
under the command of Major [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the sum of two hundred
thirty one Dollars & [undecipherable] being in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] & [undecipherable] of the non commissioned [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] for April 1799
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
W. Simmons
Actt
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $38.28 to Edmund Winchester, Contractor for rations, clothing, Quartermaster, and supplies to garrison at Castle William Island, Boston Massachusetts.
Date
06/06/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799060621952
Page start
29
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Jonathan Jackson
supervisor Boston
Edmund Winchester
contractor
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Castle William Island
Boston
Massachusetts
Accountant's Office
Notable items
supplies
pay
rations
clothing
quartermaster supplies
garrison

