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 19 1799
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] late a Lieutenant in the 1st [undecipherable] of Artillery & [undecipherable] the sum of Sixty two Dollars and forty Three [undecipherable] being balance of his account including one year [undecipherable] up to the 19 August 1799 the date of his resignation accepted by the Secretary of War —
W. S.
Late [undecipherable] the Army 32 . 13
The Secy of War [undecipherable]
August 20 1799
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] the sum of twenty seven Dollars, being [undecipherable] amount of [undecipherable] account for advertising Notices & [undecipherable] to persons called to [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] respectfully [undecipherable] bounty Lands to a law for the relief of the Canadian & nonvolunteer Refugees, agreeably to the directions of the Secretary of War, which sum is payable to [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
W S.
And [undecipherable] [undecipherable] expenses
[undecipherable] 27 —
The Secretary of War
No. No 4244 J
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

