Request for Voucher
Document 1800Simmons received letters with vouchers except No. 40, which is for payment of A. Stodder for labor on fortifications. Simmons requested voucher.
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the sum of three dollars & [undecipherable] on the balance, which arises
in consequence of an error being made in the addition of the [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] obtained; this sum added to your own statement makes
the amount due you to be [undecipherable] hundred & [undecipherable] five dollars from [undecipherable]
to You, which has been paid to [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] your attorney—
Should you take the [undecipherable] interest for the current
Year, you will observe to send all your future accounts [undecipherable]
to this office, where they will be duly [undecipherable] free of any [undecipherable] on
[undecipherable] settlement the money will be transmitted by the Treasurer
of the [undecipherable: United?] States to [undecipherable] of Mr [undecipherable] to be by him paid to you
[undecipherable: signature and date]
James Mc Henry Esq. Accountants Office
No [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]. April 30. 1800
Sir,
Agreeable to the request contained in your letter of this
date I have caused to be selected from the Books of my Office
the amount of Warrants [undecipherable] under [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] & [undecipherable] to the amount [undecipherable]; the present [undecipherable]
is duly [undecipherable] thousand two hundred seventy [undecipherable]
dollars & [undecipherable] one Cents—
[undecipherable: signature]
Arch C Craig Esq.
New York [undecipherable]
May 1. 1800
Sir
I have rec'd your letters of the 22 & 23 [undecipherable]
with the vouchers therein mentioned except [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
the last [undecipherable] on your acct [undecipherable] it is for payment to [undecipherable]
for [undecipherable] on the Fortifications amounting to [undecipherable]
which has not been forwarded to me which I request your [undecipherable]
[undecipherable: signature]
[undecipherable: marginal notation, rotated, left margin]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons received letters with vouchers except No. 40, which is for payment of A. Stodder for labor on fortifications. Simmons requested voucher.
Date
05/01/1800
Author
Recipient
Document number
1800050121055
Page start
122
Note
Cited in Simmons to Creary, 07/01/1800.
Notable persons
Archibald Creary
William Simmons
A. Stodder
Notable locations
New Port, Rhode Island
Notable items
fortification
labor
voucher

