Certification of payment; William Small, Paymaster and Store Keeper, Harpers Ferry Virginia
Document 1801Certification of payment; $104.20 to William Small, Paymaster and Store Keeper, Harpers Ferry Virginia, [now WV], for pay, rations, transportation of tools to his place of residence, travel expenses, and for vellum and paper for making plans.
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Accountants Office
February 4th 1801
I Certify that there is due to Freneau & Paine Printers at Charleston S.C. the Sum of thirty two dollars & 32/100, being the amount of [strikethrough: their] their account for advertising General orders to absent Officers & frauds respecting the obtaining of Warrants for bounty lands between April 1797 & February 1798 by order of the Secretary of War —
M.S.
[Dolls 32.32]
The Sec.y of War
February 4th 1801,
I Certify that there is due to William Small late assistant to the Pay master & Store Keeper at Harpers Ferry in Virginia, the Sum of One hundred & four dollars & 20/100, being for his pay & Rations from 1.st to 30 April 1799, the day on which his Services [ended] — for Transportation of his tools & machinery from the Armory to his place of residence for traveling expences incurred when sent on the business of the Armory and for Vellum & paper employed in making Plans: admitted agreeably to a letter from James McHenry Sec.y of War to [said] Small dated in April 99 & of a letter to the Accountant of the War Departm.t dated 7 April 1800 —
M.S.
Armory at Harpers Ferry 1799
[Dolls 104.20]
The Sec.t of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $104.20 to William Small, Paymaster and Store Keeper, Harpers Ferry Virginia, [now WV], for pay, rations, transportation of tools to his place of residence, travel expenses, and for vellum and paper for making plans.
Date
02/04/1801
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1801020421552
Page start
289
Notable persons
Samuel Dexter
William Simmons
William Small
paymaster
storekeeper
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Harpers Ferry
Virginia
West Virginia
Accountant's Office
residence
Notable items
pay
rations
transportation
tools
travel of expenses
vellum
paper
plans

