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
a.W.D. Knoxville
Sir
Accountants' Office
April 24t 1800
By this days mail I received a letter from Mr. Chandler inclosing a certificate of the Pay &c drawn of him by Collo Butler, and doing away that forwarded some time since; it being erroneous. As I formed the statement of his account upon the information contained in the certificate first forwarded, it is erroneous as I therein credited the Colle with his pay &c for the months of July August & Septr 1799 which appears by the last certificate to have been paid by Mr. Chandler. and I omitted charging him with the double rations drawn by him for those months. In consequence I have directed another statement of his account by which there appears a balance of Eight hundred & eighty dollars 5/100, due from him to the United States. A copy of this statement I inclose you for your government & I have directed Colle Butler either to refund you this amount or stop drawing his Pay & Forage until the account shall be balanced.
Sam &c.
W.S.
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

