Certification of payment; John Cress, Quartermaster in Battalion of Philadelphia Militia Artillery commanded by Major Jeremiah Fisher called into service to suppress an insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania
Document 1800Certification of payment; $9.30 retained rations to John Cress, Quartermaster in Battalion of Philadelphia Militia Artillery commanded by Major Jeremiah Fisher called into service to suppress an insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania.
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Accountants Office
February 6th 1800
I Certify, that there is due to Thos Humphreys Lieutenant in the Battalion of Philadelphia Militia Artillery commanded by Major Jeremiah Fisher ordered into service in the Year 1794 to Suppress an Insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania the Sum of three dollars & You being the balance due him for Advance rations from 14 Septe to the 24 December 1794 —
Dol. 30 [undecipherable]
The Secy of War
February 6th 1800
I Certify, that there is due to George Fox first in the Battalion of Philadelphia Militia ordered into service to suppress an Insurrection in the Western counties of Pensva in 1794 the Sum of three dollars & You being the balance due for Advance rations from the 14 Sept to the 24 December 1799 —
Dol. 30 [undecipherable]
The Secretary of War
Feb 6. 1800
I Certify that there is due a Major Genl Archd Irwin & in two cuts de Camp Aaron Ogden I don't know of the [undecipherable] Militia ordered into service to Suppress an Insurrection in the Western counties of Pensva in 1794 the Sum of twenty three dollars & [undecipherable] being the balance due them for Advance rations from the 14th Sept to the 25 December 1794 and from [undecipherable] to four Shar [undecipherable] dollars —
Dol 79.35 [undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $9.30 retained rations to John Cress, Quartermaster in Battalion of Philadelphia Militia Artillery commanded by Major Jeremiah Fisher called into service to suppress an insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania.
Date
02/06/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800020621655
Page start
148
Note
[No addressee, but presumably addressed to McHenry.]
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Major Jeremiah Fisher
John Cress
quartermaster
accountant
Secretary of War
battalion
Philadelphia militia artillery
command
Notable locations
western counties of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
insurrection
Whiskey Rebellion
retained rations

