Certification of payment; Joshua Orne, Agent of Fortifications at Marblehead, Massachusetts
Document 1799Certification of payment; $140.32 to Joshua Orne, Agent of Fortifications at Marblehead, Massachusetts, for expenditures.
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Accountants Office
Novr 8.th 1799
I certify that there is due to Josmer [undecipherable]
One Agent of Fortifications at Marblehead Mass. the sum of
One hundred &forty [underline: Dollars &[undecipherable]] being the balance due to
him for his expenditures on account of the Fortifications at
Marblehead up to the 30 Sep.t last inclusive — as pr Settlement
of this Date is
[signature]
Fortifications Harbors 140.32
The Sec.y of War
No 4589
· November 8.th 1799 ·
I certify that there is due to Peter Gordon Post
master at Trenton the sum of [underline: Four hundred &sixty two Dollars [undecipherable]]
being for the Postage of sundry letters addressed to &from Colonel
Pay master General, on Public business between 3 day of Sept 1799 &
4 day of November 1799 — which sum is to be paid to Hazen [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
[signature]
Incid. &Cont.l exp.s 462.35
The Sec.y of War
No 4590
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $140.32 to Joshua Orne, Agent of Fortifications at Marblehead, Massachusetts, for expenditures.
Date
11/08/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799110821352
Page start
118
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Joshua Orne
agent of fortifications
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Marblehead
Massachusetts
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
expenditures
fortifications

