Recruiting party in Vermont
Document 1799Discusses establishment of recruiting party in Vermont for the four old infantry regiments. Describes pay, manning, supply, contractors.
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[Lieut Seymour Rennick
2d Regiment Pay to 30th
of September 1799.]
[No 31]
[Am.t 157. 58/100]
[S.]
War Department Trenton
September 25. 1799.
Sir
The bearer Seymour Rannix is a second Lieutenant in the second Regiment of Infantry, and accepted his appointment on the twenty third day of March last.
He has not yet joined his regiment and may be paid the amount of his pay and subsistence from the time of his acceptance to the end of the present month.
You will make the necessary communication to the regimental paymaster.
I am Sir
with respect
Your Obt Servant
Signed . . . . . James McHenry
Caleb Swan Esqr
Pay Master Genl
The United States
To Seymour Renick a second Lt. in the 2. U.S. Regt
Infantry Dr.
To pay from 23d March to 30. September 1799
inclusive 6 Mo. 9. days a 25. dollars per mo. $157..58.
Received of Caleb Swan P.M.Gent.
this 30. day of September 1799. the sum of one hundred and fifty seven 58/100 dollars, being my pay in full from the 23.d March to this date inclusive
having signed duplicates hereof
157. 58/100 $. Seymour Renick
Subalte in the second
Regiment
Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
Discusses establishment of recruiting party in Vermont for the four old infantry regiments. Describes pay, manning, supply, contractors.
Date
09/25/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Document number
1799092500201
Page start
1
Notable persons
James McHenry
Major Bewell
Lieutenant Richmond
Alexander Hamilton
Ebenezer Stevens
Elijah Paine
Notable locations
War Department, Bennington Vermont
New York
Trenton
Notable items
pay
recruiting
clothing
forage
fuel
straw
stationary

