Certification of payment; Jonathan Jackson, Agent for the Department of War at Boston for expenses for erecting fortifications for defense of Boston Harbor
Document 1800Certification of payment; $492.45 to Jonathan Jackson, Agent for the Department of War at Boston, the amount of his expenditures for erecting fortifications for defense of Boston Harbor.
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Accountants Office
February 4, 1800
I Certify that there is due to Robert Ives of
Springfield Massachusetts the sum of ninety Three Dollars
80/100 being for his services in January 1800 [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Field [undecipherable: barrels?] made by Simon Smith at [undecipherable] in Connecticut
admitted in conformity to a letter from the Secretary of War dated
[undecipherable] 1795 to David [undecipherable] of Springfield aforesaid
[undecipherable: initials]
$93.[undecipherable]
For [undecipherable]—
February 10th 1800
I Certify that there is due to B. [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
the sum of Seventy five Dollars & 9/100 [undecipherable] the amount of his [undecipherable]
for binding Books & [undecipherable] for the use of the War Department
& [undecipherable] by the Secretary of [undecipherable]—
[undecipherable: initials]
$[undecipherable]
For [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
the sum of [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] dollars — [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] & [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
at [undecipherable: Lexington?] in [undecipherable: Kentucky?] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable: initials]
$30[undecipherable]
[For?] [undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $492.45 to Jonathan Jackson, Agent for the Department of War at Boston, the amount of his expenditures for erecting fortifications for defense of Boston Harbor.
Date
02/04/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800020421252
Page start
146
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Jonathan Jackson
agent
Secretary of War
accountant
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Boston Massachusetts
Boston Harbor
Notable items
expenditures
erecting fortifications
defense of Boston Harbor

