Simmons Confirming Receipt of Harrison's Letter of December 4th and the Accompanying Accounts
Document 1800Simmons received Harrison's letter of December 4th, containing the accounts of the late purveyor, and will file the accounts with the ones already received.
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George Harrison Esqr
Philada P.
Sir
Accountant's Office
Decr 9th 1800
I have received your letter of the 16th ulto & the account current of the late Surveyor within the United States which will be filed with the accounts already received for examination & Settlement — Beur &c pd
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Wayles Pope Esqr
Milton Co Georgia
Sir
December 10th 1800
Your letter dated the 28 October was this day handed to me by Coll Taliaferro, together with a Statement of your Pay as Pay master to the Militia in Georgia. When I wrote you on the 22 February last in reply to your letter of the 28th January & States to you the balance found due on a Statement of your accounts, a copy of which I then enclosed to you, I presumed that on receipt thereof you would immediately have forwarded to this Office all your accounts & vouchers that they might be examined & Stated: as I then mentioned to you that your pay would be adjusted on [undecipherable] of your accounts. As the accounts have not however been forwarded I have to call your attention to that object, & request that you will forward a Statement of your transactions as Pay master (subsequent to the Statement forwarded to you) and the vouchers you have taken that it may be enabled immediately to Settle & close your accounts; & that all of the Sums remaining unpaid you will furnish with the [undecipherable] and refer all claimants to this Office for future payment —
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons received Harrison's letter of December 4th, containing the accounts of the late purveyor, and will file the accounts with the ones already received.
Date
12/09/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800120921455
Page start
321
Notable persons
George Harrison
William Simmons
purveyor
Tench Francis
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Accountant's Office
Notable items
account
examination
settlement

