Returned Accounts to be Submitted to Paymaster General
Document 1800Simmons returned accounts from travel and expenses from Fort Norfolk to Harper's Ferry for the Court Martial of Capt. Blackburn. Accounts to be examined and settled with Paymaster General of respective regiment.
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[undecipherable] on granting your duplicate rec'd for the Same,
Sam H:
[monogram]
Sam: Hodgdon Esqr Commissaries Office
Philad. July 10th 1800.
Sir
The Secretary of War has issued a warrant in your favor as attorney for Joseph Williams of Springfield for Sixteen hundred Dollars, on account of the armory at that place, & agreeably to the request contained in your letter of the 6th inst: I enclose the Same & proof together with the State which when you have Signed you will please to return to this Office —
Sam H: [undecipherable]
[monogram]
Mr Willis Chancellor July 14th 1800.
Philad.
Sir
I have received your letter of the 6th Instant, with its enclosures which will be placed under examination with the accounts already received. [undecipherable] you will be informed of the result.
Sam H: [undecipherable]
[monogram]
Lieut Henry G. Mecklenburg July 11th 1800.
Fort Norfolk Md
Sir
I have received your letter dated 3d Inst: concerning your account of expenses from Fort-Norfolk to Harper's Ferry, attending a [undecipherable] martial in the case of Cap. [undecipherable] —
As all claims of this nature in the first instance are to be examined [undecipherable] by the Pay master of the respective Regiments I return you the account enclosed for the purpose of making the proper application to the Pay master of your Regiment —
Sam [undecipherable]
[monogram]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons returned accounts from travel and expenses from Fort Norfolk to Harper's Ferry for the Court Martial of Capt. Blackburn. Accounts to be examined and settled with Paymaster General of respective regiment.
Date
07/11/1800
Author
Recipient
Document number
1800071121155
Page start
187
Notable persons
Lieutenant Henry M Muhlenberg
William Simmons
Captain Blackburn
regiment
paymaster
Notable locations
Fort Norfolk, Virginia
Harper's Ferry
Notable items
court martial
claims

