Letter from the Accountant of the War Department
Document 1799Simmons informs McWhorter to expect payment from Samuel Lewis. Simmons also notifies McWhorter that all future accounting will be handled by the Paymaster General.
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Lieut John G. M'Whorter
Pay master 11 Regt
Elizabethtown N.J.
Accountants Office
August 8th 1799
Sir
I have received your letter of the 2d and you will by this days mail receive from Samuel [undecipherable] Clerke in the War Office the sum of two thousand Dollars on account of the subsistence of the Officers of the 11th of Infantry to whom you will please forward your receipt. I have advised the Pay master General of this remittance & requested him to furnish you with the necessary instructions relative to the disbursement thereof. You will in future correspond with him on the subject of your accounts as they are transferred to him for settlement, agreeably to which I formerly wrote you on this subject.
I am &c [undecipherable: signature]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Simmons informs McWhorter to expect payment from Samuel Lewis. Simmons also notifies McWhorter that all future accounting will be handled by the Paymaster General.
Date
08/03/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799080321355
Page start
205
Notable persons
Lieutenant John G. McWhorter
William Simmons
Samuel Lewis
Paymaster General
senior clerk
officers
11th Infantry Regiment
Notable locations
Elizabethtown, New Jersey
Accountant's Office
Notable items
subsistence
receipts
disbursement
accounts
settlement