Certification of payment; Doctor Joseph Strong, for medicines furnished and attendance on recruits under Major Thomas Cushing
Document 1801Certification of payment; $40 to Doctor Joseph Strong, for medicines furnished and attendance on recruits under Major Thomas Cushing, seven miles from Philadelphia, in the yellow fever of 1798, and for expenses while detained by summons by Judge Advocate as witness in Court Martial.
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[Accountable C[undecipherable].]
January 31. 1801
I Certify that there is due to C[undecipherable] of [undecipherable: Phila], the sum of [undecipherable: forty] dollars [undecipherable] for furnish[ing] one attendance on Major Thomas Cushing [undecipherable] miles from [undecipherable: Phila] in the [undecipherable] cause of the Year 179[undecipherable] which [undecipherable: detain'd] by a summons from the Judge [undecipherable: Provost] to [undecipherable: attend] as a [undecipherable: witness] at a [undecipherable: General] Court Martial [undecipherable: convened] by the Secretary of War W.S.
[undecipherable: Sect] 40.
I the Secy of War
January 31. 1801
I Certify and [undecipherable] are to [undecipherable: Settle] & [undecipherable] the sum of [undecipherable: Forty odd] dollars for examining and reporting [undecipherable] Book [undecipherable] accounts of [undecipherable: Physicians] who were employed in the service of the U.S. [undecipherable] whose bills were [undecipherable: submitted] to him by the Secretary of War from [undecipherable: July] 6. 1799 to January 1801. W.S.
[undecipherable: Sect] 40.
I the Secy of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $40 to Doctor Joseph Strong, for medicines furnished and attendance on recruits under Major Thomas Cushing, seven miles from Philadelphia, in the yellow fever of 1798, and for expenses while detained by summons by Judge Advocate as witness in Court Martial.
Date
01/31/1801
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1801013121055
Page start
278
Notable persons
Samuel Dexter
William Simmons
Doctor Joseph Strong
recruits
Major Thomas Cushing
judge advocate
accountant
Secretary of War
witness court martial
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
expenses
medicine
medical attendance
yellow fever
detained by summons

