Receipt of Caleb Swan for payment of troops
Document 1800Boote received from Swan $18,525, the balance of pay, forage and subsistence for the troops garrisoned at Fort Adams and Fort Stoddart.
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Received of Caleb Swan Pay master General (by hands of Elijas Swan) Eighteen Thousand five Hundred & twenty five Dollars being for the Balance to Pay voyage & Subsistance for the Troops Garrison'd at Fort Adams & Fort Stoddert up to the 28.th of February 1800 for which I am accountable to the accountants of the Department of War, & for which I do hereby engage to produce to the Said Caleb Swan the Comp-[undecipherable]lete Sets of Muster & pay Rolls in detail as Required by law and also Certified [undecipherable] abstracts of the officers and abstracts of the Same all in Conformity established forms & rules heretofore used in the official transactions of the Said Caleb Swan.
May 25th 1800 Signed triplicate
[signature]
[undecipherable] Paymaster
[signature]
[seal]
[Endorsement: W.R. Bootes Cap.t for 18525 [undecipherable] in favor of Major C. Swan for money advanced to pay the Troops]
Abijah Hunt [signature]
September 30 1800 Received of Caleb Swan P.m. General the Sum of Eighteen thousand five Hundred and twenty five dollars in full of the advance made by Abijah Hunt to [undecipherable] 3d Regiment having signed duplicates hereof.
Jesse Hunt [signature]
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Type
Document Signed
Description
Boote received from Swan $18,525, the balance of pay, forage and subsistence for the troops garrisoned at Fort Adams and Fort Stoddart.
Date
05/25/1800
Author
Document number
1800052590001
Page start
1
Notable persons
William R Boote
Abijah Hunt
Caleb Swan
Jesse Hunt
Notable locations
Fort Adams
Fort Stoddart
Notable items
balance
pay
forage
subsistence
garrison
muster rolls
pay rolls
receipt rolls

