Certification of payment; Robert House, Contractor, for rations, quartermaster, and hospital stores furnished troops stationed at Fort Johnston
Document 1799Certification of payment; $726.35 to Robert House, Contractor, for rations, quartermaster, and hospital stores furnished troops stationed at Fort Johnston, North Carolina.
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Accountant's Office
Septemr 28. 1799
I Certify that there is due to George Spear Lieutenant 1 Regt of Artillerists & Engs the sum of forty five Dollars & ten, being balance of pay from 1 June to 31 August 1799, which sum as to its incorrectness [undecipherable] & fitness [undecipherable] Examination & to be by him paid to the Secy [undecipherable]
$45.
Pay of the Army Dr31. 17
The So of War.
Septemr 30. 1799
I Certify that there is due to Russell Bissell Captain 2d Regt of Infantry, the sum of two hundred forty four Dollars & [undecipherable] being balanced on settlement of his account embracing his pay from 1 June 1798 to 30 Sept 1799, also Subsistence from 1 June to 31 Decemr 1798, which sum is to be transmitted to John Whistler Supervisor [undecipherable] to be by him paid for the use of Bissell.
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Pay of the army in gy Dr 230. 94
The Act of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $726.35 to Robert House, Contractor, for rations, quartermaster, and hospital stores furnished troops stationed at Fort Johnston, North Carolina.
Date
09/18/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799091821852
Page start
104
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Griffith McRee
collector Wilmington North Carolina
Robert House
contractor
troops
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Fort Johnston
North Carolina
Notable items
rations
pay
quartermaster stores
hospital stores

