Certification of payment; Samuel Park for postage for public letters addressed to officers and agents of the Armies of the United States
Document 1800Certification of payment; $29.56 to Samuel Park for postage for public letters addressed to officers and agents of the Armies of the United States
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Accountant's Office
January 7th 1800
I Certify that there is due to Samuel Bird the sum of twenty nine dollars & 56/100 being amount of his account of Postage for or Public Letters addressed to Officers & Agents of the Armies of The United States, from 3 rd July to 31 December 1799, & admitted by the Secretary of War —
W. S.
Doll.s 29. 56
The Secretary of War —
January [undecipherable] 1800
I Certify there is due to Parrish & Murdock of Brooklyn [undecipherable: probable reading "Conn."] contractors, the sum of One hundred Dollars, being a balance for Rations & Quarter master Stores furnishing the Troops at said place, between 1 Nov.r & 20 December 1799 which sum is to be transmitted to Jedediah Huntingdon Collector at New London to be by him paid to the said Parrish & Murdock &
W. S.
Doll.s 100.—
The Secretary of War
January 9th 1800
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] H. Williams the sum in Sixty Dollars — fifty cents being the amount of his expenses & Horse hire — travelling to & from Harpers Ferry, on business relating to the payment of the Troops by order of the Secretary of War —
(Doll.s 60. 50
The Sec.y of War —)
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $29.56 to Samuel Park for postage for public letters addressed to officers and agents of the Armies of the United States
Date
01/07/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800010721153
Page start
136
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Samuel Park
officers
agents
armies of United States
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Notable items
postage
pay
public letters


