Request for Account Information
Document 1800Goodhue received a warrant for the payment of men at Salem for their work on fortifications. Simmons never received any account information regarding the payment and requested Goodhue transmit an account of the money disbursed supported by vouchers.
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Isaac Goodhue Esq
[& the Secry January] Accountant's Office
May 23d 1800 Sir On the [undecipherable] of April 1799, you gave [pro?] this Office [undecipherable] to a [undecipherable] found in favor of the Treasurer of the United States, and by him transmitted to you, the first [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the sum of one thousand Dollars on account of the [undecipherable: Notifications] at that place. Not having received any account [of?] the expenditure I have to request you will have the goodness to not agree them & request them to transmit to this Office as soon as convenient an account of the money disbursed [supported by?] suitable vouchers, in order that this account may be collected here at this Office— Sam D.— W.S. Jons Jackson Esqr
Boston May 23d 1800 Sir I received your letter of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] enclosing the receipt of [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] for seventy two dollars, which will be entered on the Books of this Office— Sam D.
W.S. John Kelly [undecipherable]
[undecipherable: Superintendent] Baltimore May 23d 1800 Sir— The Treasurer of the United States will remit [undecipherable] the sum of Thirty seven dollars to be paid to [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Printers]—for printing advertisements of [undecipherable] by Treasury office of the United States from [undecipherable] May 1797 to [undecipherable] March 1800— You will be pleased to take the [undecipherable] receipts [undecipherable] forwarded to this office and Sam [undecipherable]— W.S.
[& the Secry January] Accountant's Office
May 23d 1800 Sir On the [undecipherable] of April 1799, you gave [pro?] this Office [undecipherable] to a [undecipherable] found in favor of the Treasurer of the United States, and by him transmitted to you, the first [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the sum of one thousand Dollars on account of the [undecipherable: Notifications] at that place. Not having received any account [of?] the expenditure I have to request you will have the goodness to not agree them & request them to transmit to this Office as soon as convenient an account of the money disbursed [supported by?] suitable vouchers, in order that this account may be collected here at this Office— Sam D.— W.S. Jons Jackson Esqr
Boston May 23d 1800 Sir I received your letter of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] enclosing the receipt of [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] for seventy two dollars, which will be entered on the Books of this Office— Sam D.
W.S. John Kelly [undecipherable]
[undecipherable: Superintendent] Baltimore May 23d 1800 Sir— The Treasurer of the United States will remit [undecipherable] the sum of Thirty seven dollars to be paid to [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Printers]—for printing advertisements of [undecipherable] by Treasury office of the United States from [undecipherable] May 1797 to [undecipherable] March 1800— You will be pleased to take the [undecipherable] receipts [undecipherable] forwarded to this office and Sam [undecipherable]— W.S.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Goodhue received a warrant for the payment of men at Salem for their work on fortifications. Simmons never received any account information regarding the payment and requested Goodhue transmit an account of the money disbursed supported by vouchers.
Date
05/23/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800052321155
Page start
154
Notable persons
Benjamin Goodhue
William Simmons
Jonathan Jackson
supervisor Boston
Treasurer
officers
Notable locations
Boston
Accountant's Office
Notable items
fortifications
warrant
account
money
vouchers

