Certification of payment; George Davis, temporary surgeons mate, for attending troops at Fort Jay and Bedlows Island
Document 1799Certification of payment; $78.16 George Davis, temporary surgeons mate, for pay and forage and for attending troops at Fort Jay and Bedlows Island, New York.
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Accountants' Office
August 7 1799
I Certify that there is due to Lieut.
William State of the 2d Regt. & N.U.S. the Sum of Seventy
four Dollars & 33/100 being for his rations pay as Surgeons
Mate at West Point from the 1st June to 23d Sept 1798 &
for the passage of himself therefrom from West Point to
Portland — which sum is to be transmitted to [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Collector to be by him paid to the said Lieutenant
Numb & Ent. rations: 26.22 3[undecipherable]—
Quarter master: [undecipherable].22 [undecipherable].
Dollars 74.33
[undecipherable] S[undecipherable] of War
August 6th 1799
I Certify that there is due to Saml
Hodgdon Superintendent of Military Stores the Sum of Seven
thousand & Eighty nine Dollars & 20/100 being balance of monies
disbursements by him within the Year 1798, after the two
last quarters of the Year 1799 consisting of the pay of sundry
persons employed in the Military Store Department, sundry
incidental & Contingent expenses the rent of Stores & grounds
occupied for Public service, stationary [undecipherable] for, & furnished
to his Excellcy General George Washington Commander of the
Armies of the United States, including sundry personal charges
by Samuel Hodgdon, [undecipherable] of stores ) No 1.
Dollrs 7089. 20
[undecipherable] 446
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $78.16 George Davis, temporary surgeons mate, for pay and forage and for attending troops at Fort Jay and Bedlows Island, New York.
Date
08/02/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799080221852
Page start
93
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
George Davis
temporary surgeons mate
accountant
Secretary of War
troops
Notable locations
Fort Jay
Bedlows Island
New York
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
forage
attending troops

