Letter from the Accountant of the War Department
Document 1799Simmons notifies the Paymaster General of the sum to be deducted from Lt. Ferdinand Claiborne's pay.
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[449]
from which deduct (Columns) D 518.45
Amount of bounties paid premiums allowance for enlist.
Eleven months recruiting act in 1795 D 30.0[undecipherable]
Amount of expenses incurred in pursuing & apprehending
Deserters [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
D[?] 331.21
Dollars 28.3[undecipherable]
leaving a balance now standing against you of two hundred & [undecipherable] ninety seven Dollars & [undecipherable], abatement whereof will be found to the Pay masters Genls, who will of course make the moiety deducted from your Pay roll in order to balance that sum.
Sam[undecipherable]
A.S.
Caleb Swan Esq. Accountants Office
Pay master Genl December 10 1799
Sir
I hand you herewith a statement of the balance now standing to the debt of [undecipherable] Lieut [undecipherable: probable reading Comdg] in the 1st Regt of Infantry on the books of this Office, amounting to Two hundred [undecipherable] seven Dollars & [undecipherable], which same you will of course deduct from his pay on the pay rolls of his Detachment, in order to balance that amount, agreeably to his letter to you.
I also hand you enclosed statement of expenses incurred in pursuing & apprehending sundry deserters, for the purpose of meeting the moiety stoppage from their pay in the same known due, the whole amounting to [undecipherable] twenty seven Dollars & [undecipherable]
Sam[undecipherable]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Simmons notifies the Paymaster General of the sum to be deducted from Lt. Ferdinand Claiborne's pay.
Date
12/16/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1799121621255
Page start
449
Notable persons
Caleb Swan
William Simmons
1st Regiment of Infantry
deserters
paymaster
detachment
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
pay rolls
balance
expenses
deserters
stoppages

