Certification of payment; Ebenezer Stevens, Agent for the War Department at New York
Document 1800Certification of payment; $12188.88 to Ebenezer Stevens, Agent for the War Department at New York for expenditures on fortifications, quartermaster department, clothing department, and contingent expenses.
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[Accountants Office
May 8th 1800]
I Certify that there is due to [undecipherable] for rations wanted in the 1st Regt of Infantry the Sum of Thirty one dollars 3 [undecipherable] being for his Subsistance from [undecipherable] Augt to 31 Decr 1794
[undecipherable]
[Leaving the army in 1795]
Decr 30. 04
The Secy of War
May 8 1800
I Certify that there is due to John Henry [undecipherable] in the 2d Regt of A & B the Sum of Fifty dollars being to reimburse a like sum paid by him for rent of two Rooms occupied by him at New Port [R.I.] from 1 July to 1[undecipherable] 1799, which sum is to be transmitted to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dexter [undecipherable] at Providence to be by him paid to the said Capt Henry —
Debt 50.
[undecipherable]
The Secy of War
May 6th 1800
I Certify that there is due to Samuel Park the Sum of Twenty five dollars being for postage of letters addressed to & from [undecipherable] Brian Pay master General, on [undecipherable] business between 1 [undecipherable] & 30 April 1800, admitted on conformity to a letter from the Secretary of Wars dated 5 Novr 1799 —
[undecipherable]
Evid 22 —
The Secy of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $12188.88 to Ebenezer Stevens, Agent for the War Department at New York for expenditures on fortifications, quartermaster department, clothing department, and contingent expenses.
Date
05/02/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800050221552
Page start
197
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Ebenezer Stevens
Agent
accountant
Secretary of War
quartermaster department
clothing department
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
New York
Notable items
pay
expenditures
fortifications
contingent expenses

