Certification of payment; Lieutenant Zebulon Pike for expenses when ordered to travel from Easton to the seat of government
Document 1800Certification of payment; Lieutenant Zebulon Pike for expenses when ordered to travel from Easton Pennsylvania to the seat of government
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Accountants Office
January 17th 1805
I Certify that there is due to John Skett of Wilmington Delaware the sum of Two hundred eighty one Dollars & 9/100 being for rations [undecipherable] master Stores furnished between the month of November & the 31 December 1799 to the Recruits who made [undecipherable] under the command of Major [undecipherable] Luff —
[left margin: Sub [undecipherable] Army 206. 9[undecipherable]
Jan'r [undecipherable] Apr 179[undecipherable]
281.78]
[signature: initials, undecipherable]
[notation: Sec'y of War]
January 17 1800
I certify that there is due to James Sargeant the sum of Two thousand, five hundred ninety eight dollars & [undecipherable]/100 being the balance of his account for the said advances for the Substance at Vincennes & Point [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] advances in the State of [undecipherable] heretofore to have [undecipherable] occupied by this United as Stores & Vincennes & wherein fortifications have been erected from the service they were respectively taken possession of by the United States in the 12 August 1795 inclusive divided — Made in conformity with the letter of the Secretary of War dated on 15 June 1800 —
[signature: undecipherable]
[left margin: $ Acc 23. $. 9[undecipherable]
Sec'y of War]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; Lieutenant Zebulon Pike for expenses when ordered to travel from Easton Pennsylvania to the seat of government
Date
01/14/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800011421452
Page start
138
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Captain Peter Shoemaker
Lieutenant Theodore Meminger
Lieutenant Zebulon Pike
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Easton
Pennsylvania
Seat of Government
Washington
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
travel expenses

