Acknowledgement of receipt of pay
Document 1799Renick received $157.58 in pay from Caleb Swan, paymaster general.
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[Docket: 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 Ob.t Servant
Signed . . . . James McHenry
Caleb Swan Esq.r
Pay Master Gen.l
[Enclosure]
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.
[Enclosure]
Received of Caleb Swan P.M.Gen.t
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. March to this date inclusive
having signed duplicates hereof
157. 58/100 $ Seymour Renick
2d Lt in the Second
Regiment
Type
Document Signed
Description
Renick received $157.58 in pay from Caleb Swan, paymaster general.
Date
09/30/1799
Author
Recipient
Document number
1799093090101
Page start
5
Note
Enclosed in McHenry to Swan, 09/25/1799.
Notable persons
Ensign Seymour Renick
2nd Regiment
Caleb Swan
paymaster general

