Request for Refund
Document 1800Simmons notified Butler statement sent to Office by the Pay Master Chandler was erroneous due to discovered receipts. Butler was overpaid for pay subsistance and forage for July-September 1799. Butler owed the United States a balance of $888.51 which Simmons requested be refunded. Alternately, Butlers pay could be suspended by Mr. Henley.
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David Henley Esqr Accountants' Office
A.W.D. Knoxville April 24th 1800
Sir
By this days mail I received a letter from Mr Chandler inclosing a certificate of the Pay & rations of [undecipherable] by Col. Butler, and doing away [with] that you forwarded some time since, I being [undecipherable]. So I [proceed/proceeded] the Statement of his account upon the information contained in the certificates forwarded. It is erroneous as I therein credited the Col. with his pay & for the months of July August [Septr] 1799 which appears by this last certificate to have been paid by him [undecipherable] and I omitted charging him with the amount [taken] by him for those months. In consequence I have inclosed another Statement of his account by which there appears a balance of [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] dollars [undecipherable] due from him to the States. I inclose a copy of this statement & [inclose] you for your government & I have desired Col. Butler either to refund you this amount or stop drawing his Pay & Rations until the account shall be balanced.
Sam. B.
[undecipherable]
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Lieut Col. The. Butler April 24th 1800
& W [undecipherable] Nashville
Sir
Since my last to you dated the 18th [inst.] I have received a letter from Mr Chandler the Pay master of your [undecipherable] inclosing a Statement of Pay, Subsistence & Rations paid by [you?]. It states the former one forwarded by him to have been erroneous as [to?] found by [your?] receipts that he had paid you your Pay, Subsistence & Rations for the months of July, Aug. & [Septr] 1799
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons notified Butler statement sent to Office by the Pay Master Chandler was erroneous due to discovered receipts. Butler was overpaid for pay subsistance and forage for July-September 1799. Butler owed the United States a balance of $888.51 which Simmons requested be refunded. Alternately, Butlers pay could be suspended by Mr. Henley.
Date
04/24/1800
Author
Recipient
Document number
1800042421655
Page start
109
Notable persons
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Butler
William Simmons
Mr. Chandler
paymaster
regiment
commandant
Notable locations
South West Point, Tennessee
Notable items
pay
subsistence
forage
erroneous
double rations
books

