Certification of payment; James Nicholson for services inspecting muskets, musket stocks, barrels, bayonets and ramrods
Document 1800Certification of payment; $180 to James Nicholson for services inspecting muskets, musket stocks, barrels, bayonets and ramrods.
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[Accountants Office
April 17th 1800]
I Certify that there is due to William Carter, Serjeant in the 11 Regt of Infantry the sum of four dollars & seventy five Cents, being for expenses incurred by him in marching 3 Recruits from Philadelphia to Head Quarters on the Scotch Plains agreeably to the order of Lt John Caldwell which sum is payable to the said sd Caldwell being so much advanced by him to the said Carter — N.L.
Drs 4.75—
The Secy of War —
April 21st 1800
I Certify that there is due to James Nicholson the sum of [underline: one hundred & eighty dollars], being for his services assisting in the Inspection of Musketts Musket Stocks Muskett Barrels Bayonets Ramrods &c. from the 16 Octr 1799 to 16 April 1800, agreeable to this account admitted by the Secretary of War —
Dols 180.—
The Secretary of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $180 to James Nicholson for services inspecting muskets, musket stocks, barrels, bayonets and ramrods.
Date
04/21/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800042121552
Page start
188
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
James Nicholson
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Notable items
inspection
muskets
musket stocks
barrels
bayonets
ramrods
pay
services


