Certification of payment; Thomas H. Williams for expenses and horse hire in traveling to Harpers Ferry on business related to payment of troops
Document 1800Certification of payment; $60.50 to Thomas H. Williams for expenses and horse hire in traveling to Harpers Ferry Virginia on business related to payment of troops.
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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 Public Letters addressed to Officers & Agents of the Armies
of The United States from 9th July to 31 December 1799, & admitted
by the Secretary of War —
W.S.
Dolls 29.56
The Secretary of War —
January 3 1800
I Certify there is due to Parrish & Murdock
of Brooklyn [undecipherable], contractors, the sum of One hundred Dollars,
being a balance for Rations & Quarter master Stores furnishing the
Troops at said place between 1 Novr & 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 &c
W.S.
Dols 100.—
The Secretary of War
January 9th 1800
I certify that there is due to Thos H. Williams the
sum of Sixty Dollars & fifty Cents being the amount of his expenses
& Horse hire in traveling to [from] Harpers Ferry, on business relating
to the payment of the Troops by order of the Secretary of War —
(Dols 60. 50
The Secy of War —)
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $60.50 to Thomas H. Williams for expenses and horse hire in traveling to Harpers Ferry Virginia on business related to payment of troops.
Date
01/09/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800010921252
Page start
137
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Thomas H. Williams
troops
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Virginia
Harpers Ferry
West Virginia
Accountant's Office
Notable items
travel
expenses
payment
pay
horse hire
travel expenses


