Letter from the Accountant of the War Department
Document 1799Simmons informs Littlefield that his accounts, vouchers, and expenditures were received.
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Capt William Littledale Accountants Office
New York July 6th 1799
Sir
I have recd your letter dated the 16 Ulto enclosing receipt rolls for the pay & bounty of the troops stationed at Fort Mifflin for the months of March & April 1799 which have [undecipherable] communicated the amount therein found being three hundred seventy three Dollars & You will accordingly be placed to the credit of your account on the Books of this Office.
Your subsistence account ending 30 Sept 1799 has been [undecipherable] agreeably to the regulations made by The Secy [undecipherable] allowing an [undecipherable] of one [undecipherable] on the shortest [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] provision to its augmentation yielding all [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]
from G[?] No [undecipherable]
Mr O Ellery July 6 1799
New York
Sir
I received your letter of the 3 Inst enclosing Muster & Pay rolls of the troops Stationed at Fort McHenry under the command of Capt [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for June 1799 which will be placed under examination they are found [undecipherable] transmitted in the usual manner.
When the Pay master General, who is hourly expected, arrives on this duty all muster & pay rolls are to be [undecipherable] it being by law his duty to Pay the Army of the United States [undecipherable]
from p[?] [undecipherable]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Simmons informs Littlefield that his accounts, vouchers, and expenditures were received.
Date
07/05/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799070521655
Page start
115
Notable persons
Captain William Littlefield
William Simmons
troops
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Fort Wolcott
Fort Wolcot
Rhode Island
Secretary of War
New Port
Accountant's Office
Notable items
receipt rolls
pay
retained bounty
examination
credit
account
books
subsistence account
advance
contract price
ration

