Account Suspended
Document 1800Account suspended due to the lack of general ruling on the subject of cannon and slaughter. Simmons also suspended account with intention of settlement upon receipt of all accounts of the regiment and creation of a general settlement.
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Joseph Williams &c Accountants Office
Pay master & Store Keeper August 6th 1800
Springfield Mass
pr
Sir
Your account & receipts for expenditures at the Armory at Springfield [Massachusetts?] for the quarter ending 30 June last have been examined & a balance found in your [undecipherable] agreeable to your own statement of $[undecipherable] to which has been added the following from M[undecipherable] —
this [undecipherable] being the amount of warrant N° 0133 given [undecipherable] to the date of your account ......... 100—
Do amt of do N° 0133 do do .......... 70—
$[undecipherable]
Leaving the above sum of eight thousand seven hundred & thirty one dollars & [undecipherable] due from you to the United States who will be carried to your debit on next account—
I am &c
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Account suspended due to the lack of general ruling on the subject of cannon and slaughter. Simmons also suspended account with intention of settlement upon receipt of all accounts of the regiment and creation of a general settlement.
Date
08/06/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800080621055
Page start
216
Notable persons
Lieutenant John G. McWhorter
William Simmons
paymaster 11th Regiment
Connor Slaughter
Notable locations
New York
Accountant's Office
Notable items
settlement
account

