Certification of payment; Samuel Park, for postage to and from Caleb Swan, Paymaster General, on public business
Document 1800Certification of payment; $62.83 to Samuel Park, for postage to and from Caleb Swan, Paymaster General, on public business.
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⇣I certify that there is due to Samuel Park the sum of Sixty two dollars & 83/100 being for Postage of Letters addressed to and from Caleb Swan Pay master General on public Business between 18 Nov. & 31 December 1799 admitted in conformity to a letter from The Secretary of War of the 8 Nov. 1799 ~ Dollrs 62.83 W.S. The Sec of War
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Accountants Office
December 10 1799
I Certify that there is due to Henry Bray Contractor the sum of two thousand forty eight dollars & 5/10 being a balance for rations furnished Invalids & Hospital Stores received in Transit in the United States at New Brunswick New Jersey, between 1 October & 30 Sepr 1799 which Sum is payable to Leigh Jenning Appointe to Aaron Dunham &c endorsed the Same as certified by authority —
$# 1088.76
The Secretary of War
January 3d 1800
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] B. [undecipherable] the sum of Eighty dollars being his pay for Oct & December 1799 which sum is payable to Corpl. Nicholas [undecipherable] appended to a [undecipherable] of Relinquishment on file in this Office —
Pay of the Army for 1799 —
Dollars 80 —
The Secretary of War
January 3, 1800
I Certify that there is due to Michael Abbott the sum of two hundred sixty nine Dollars & 5/10 being for Stationery supplied by him to [undecipherable] as Master General, for the use of one Office which sum is to be paid from the fund appropriated for the contingent expenses of the War Department by the [undecipherable] request of the Secretary of War, for that effect —
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $62.83 to Samuel Park, for postage to and from Caleb Swan, Paymaster General, on public business.
Date
01/02/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800010221152
Page start
132
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Samuel Park
Caleb Swan
paymaster general
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
postage
public business

