Certification of payment; Edmund Winchester, Contractor of Boston for materials purchased for repairing barracks at Castle William Island, previously rejected, having been purchased without approbation of Secretary of War
Document 1800Certification of payment; $89.44 Edmund Winchester, Contractor of Boston for materials purchased for repairing barracks at Castle William Island, previously rejected, having been purchased without approbation of Secretary of War, admitted in consequence of orders from General Hamilton.
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Accountants' Office
April 2d 1800
I Certify that there is due to Thomas Dowell Lieutt Colt of Infantry ordered out to [undecipherable] an insurrection in the Western frontiers of Pennsylvania in 1794 the Sum of one hundred & thirty three dollars [undecipherable] being for his pay from 16 October to the 4 december 1794 inclusive —
Drs133.6
To the Secy of War —
April 2d 1800
I Certify that there is due to John Nicholson Junr under an appointment made by the Secretary of War, the Sum of Two Hundred — ten dollars being for services Subsisting & Serving sundry Public Military Stores from 1 Jany to 31 March 1800 —
Drs210.—
The Secretary of War —
April 2d 1800
I Certify that there is due to this lawes Temporary Agents to the Cherokee nation of Indians the Sum of Two hundred & eighty Dollars being balance of one Year's Salary ending 31 March 1800, which Sum is payable to the Mr Jno Timberlake Attorney for said the[undecipherable] lawes —
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $89.44 Edmund Winchester, Contractor of Boston for materials purchased for repairing barracks at Castle William Island, previously rejected, having been purchased without approbation of Secretary of War, admitted in consequence of orders from General Hamilton.
Date
04/02/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800040221452
Page start
181
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Jonathan Jackson
supervisor Boston
Edmund Winchester
contractor
accountant
Secretary of War
General Alexander Hamilton
Notable locations
Boston
Massachusetts
barracks
Castle William Island
Accountant's Office
Notable items
materials
repair barracks
rejection of purchase
pay

