Certification of payment; troops stationed at Fort Norfolk under command of Captain Richard Blackburn
Document 1799Certification of payment; $1299.40 to troops stationed at Fort Norfolk under command of Captain Richard Blackburn, for pay and forage.
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being for his pay to [undecipherable] for rations 1st June 1799 WS
By, the Army of the [undecipherable]
Subsistence for [undecipherable] at at
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Accountants Office
July 17 1799
I Certify that there is due for William [undecipherable] Contractor the Sum of Fifty two dollars & [undecipherable] being for rations [undecipherable] ...ded the Remainder of Craigies massachusetts on the 2d Quarter of the Year 1799 ending 30 June 1799 which sum is to be [transmit?] the [undecipherable] Jacksons [undecipherable] at Boston to be by him paid to the said William [undecipherable] &
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July 22d 1799
I Certify that there is due to Tobias [undecipherable] Secretary to George Washington General of the Armies of the United States, the sum of Three hundred fifty one dollars & [undecipherable] being for his pay for [undecipherable] Subsistence for April May & June 1799.
By the Army [undecipherable] —
Forage of Officer [undecipherable] —
[undecipherable] of the army [undecipherable]
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $1299.40 to troops stationed at Fort Norfolk under command of Captain Richard Blackburn, for pay and forage.
Date
07/17/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799071722955
Page start
76
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Lieutenant Ferdinand L. Claiborne
Lieutenant John Saunders
Surgeon's Mate William Barnwell
Edward Carrington
supervisor Richmond Virginia
troops
Captain Richard Blackburn
accountant
Secretary of War
command
Notable locations
Richmond
Virginia
Fort Norfolk
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
forage

