Settlement of Accounts
Document 1800Balance due by Ames to United States. Simmons requested Ames make payments so as to settle accounts on the books of the Office.
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Lieut Nathl Leonard
Fort Sumner near
Portland — Maine
Accountants Office
April 10th 1800
Sir,
You will receive from Walter & Frederick Day Cashiers at Portland, the Sum of ninety two dollars & [undecipherable]/100 being to reimburse to him sum paid by you for the [undecipherable] & expenses incurred in pursuing and apprehending sundry Deserters from the Service at Fort Sumner. offering on your statements as p [undecipherable] of differences amounts — for which favor you will please to grant your duplicate rect
Sam[uel] [undecipherable]
Mr Erastus [undecipherable]
Springfield M[undecipherable]
April 10th 1800
Sir,
A statement of your account being now made a balance appears due by you to the United States of thirty [undecipherable] Dollars & [undecipherable], agreeing to the account of differences returns. The Voucher No 27 [undecipherable] carries no [undecipherable] entries —
It remains now for you to cause the [undecipherable] balance to be paid here, when your account will be finally closed on the Books of this Office —
Sam[uel] [undecipherable]
Edward Carrington, Esqr
Superintendent Richmond Va
April 10th 1800
Sir,
I enclose your letter of the [undecipherable] Instant, embracing the receipt of William [undecipherable] for three hundred eighty one dollars & [undecipherable] which will be entered to your credit on the Books of this Office —
Sam[uel] [undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Balance due by Ames to United States. Simmons requested Ames make payments so as to settle accounts on the books of the Office.
Date
04/10/1800
Author
Recipient
Document number
1800041021355
Page start
80
Notable persons
David Ames
William Simmons
Notable locations
Springfield, Massachusetts
armory
Notable items
books
account
balance
vouchers

