Certification of payment; Lieutenant William Steele, 2d Regiment Artillerists and Engineers, pay as Surgeons Mate at West Point
Document 1799Certification of payment; $74.33 to Lieutenant William Steele, 2d Regiment Artillerists and Engineers, pay as Surgeons Mate at West Point, New York, for pay and travel from West Point to Portland Maine, to be remitted by Nathaniel Fosdick, collector.
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Accountants' Office
August 7. 1799
I Certify that there is due to Lieutt
William Steele of the 2d Reg.t of A. & E. the Sum of Seventy
four Dollars & 93/100 being for his extra pay as Surgeon's
mate at West Point from the 11 June to 23d Septr 1798 &
for the passage of himself, &Servant from West Point to
Portland, which Sum is to be transmitted to Nath.l H.
Fosdick Collector to be by him paid to the said Lieutt Steele
medl & Cont. expences 34.33
Quarter-master Dep.t 40.—
Dollars 74.33
The Sec.y of War
[margin: 4402]
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August 6th 1799
I Certify that there is due to Sam.l
Hodgdon Superintendant of Military Stores the Sum of [underline: seven
thousand & fifty nine Dollars & 20/100] being balance of sundry
disbursements by him within the Year 1798, & for the two
first quarters of the Year 1799, consisting of the pay of sundry
persons employed in the Military Store Department, Sundry
Incidental & Contingent expences the Rent of Stores & grounds
occupied for Public Service, stationary purchased, for, & forwarded
to his excellency General George Washington Commander of the
Armies of the United States, including Sundry personal charges
by Samuel Hodgdon, & Contingent expences.
Dolls: 7059. 20—
The Sec.y of War 4426.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $74.33 to Lieutenant William Steele, 2d Regiment Artillerists and Engineers, pay as Surgeons Mate at West Point, New York, for pay and travel from West Point to Portland Maine, to be remitted by Nathaniel Fosdick, collector.
Date
08/07/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799080721452
Page start
95
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Lieutenant William Steele
2d Regiment
Artillerists and Engineers
Surgeons Mate
Nathaniel Fosdick
collector
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
West Point
Portland Maine
New York
Notable items
pay
travel

