Certification of payment; Parrish and Murdoch, contractors, Brooklyn, for rations and quartermaster stores furnished troops at said place
Document 1800Certification of payment; $100 to Parrish and Murdoch, contractors, Brooklyn, for rations and quartermaster stores furnished troops at said place.
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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 & [undecipherable] being amount of his account
of Postage for or Public letters addressed to Officers & Agents of the Armies
of The United States from 3rd July to 31 December 1799, & admitted
by the Secretary of War — W.S.
Dolls 29.56
The Secretary of War —
[undecipherable] 1800
I Certify there is due to Parrish & Murdock
of Brooklyn, Contra contractors, the sum of One hundred Dollars,
being a balance for Rations & Quarter master Stores furnishing the
Troops at said place, between 1st 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 Tho H Williams the
sum of Sixty Dollars & fifty cents being the amount of his expenses
& Horse hire [traveling?] to from Harpers Ferry, on business relating
to the payment of the Troops by order of the Secretary of War —
(Dolls 60. 50
The Sec.y of War —)
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $100 to Parrish and Murdoch, contractors, Brooklyn, for rations and quartermaster stores furnished troops at said place.
Date
01/08/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800010821052
Page start
136
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Jedediah Huntington collector
Parrish and Murdoch
contractors
troops
accountant
Secretary of War
Jedediah Huntingdon
Notable locations
Brooklyn
New York
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
rations
quartermaster stores


