Certification of payment; Edmund Winchester, Contractor, for rations and quartermaster stores furnished at Castle William Island
Document 1799Certification of payment; $1056.93 to Edmund Winchester, Contractor, for rations and quartermaster stores furnished at Castle William Island, in Boston.
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Accountants' Office
August 7th 1799
I certify that there is due to the Estate of Thos Hale late an Ensign in Captr Benjm Ashmeads Company and afterwards Captr Jonathan Carsons Company 1 Regt A Philadelphia Militia commanded by Collr Francis Gurney, ordered into service to suppress an Insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania in 1794 the sum of [underline: Twelve dollars] 10/100, being for his retained rations from 14 Septr to 24th December 1794 inclusively which sum is payable to Elizabeth Hale his Widow.
W.S.
Doll 12.10
The Secretary of War
No 4429.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $1056.93 to Edmund Winchester, Contractor, for rations and quartermaster stores furnished at Castle William Island, in Boston.
Date
08/07/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799080721352
Page start
95
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Jonathan Jackson
supervisor Boston Massachusetts
Edmund Winchester
contractor
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Castle William Island
Boston
Massachusetts
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
rations
quartermaster stores

