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 19 1799]
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] late a Lieutenant in the 1st [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Bayt the sum of eighty two dollars one forty Three [undecipherable] being balance of his account including one pay subsequent up to the 19 August 1799 the date of his resignation accepted by the Secretary of War —
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Late for the Army 32 . 13
The Secy of War —
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[August 20 1799]
I Certify that there is due to Capt [undecipherable] George Webster the sum of twenty seven Dollars, being the amount of their account for advertising Notices to Sundry claimants to persons entitled to lands & to persons respecting bounty lands & a law for the relief of the Canadian & Nova Scotia Refugees — agreeably to the directions of the Secretary [undecipherable], which sum is payable to Steele Easton for value.
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[paid S. & East. — expence
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The Secretary of War —
[No. No 4244 ]
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

