Transmitting the Back Pay of Oliver Roberts
Document 1801Regards the back pay of Oliver Roberts, the sum of which will be transmitted by John Chester
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Jona. Jackson Esqr
Boston —
Accountants Office
February 14 1801
Sir —
I received your letter dated 3 Inst. with your account of expenditures for the Fortifications at Boston, for December last, which will be placed under examination & you will be informed of the result. I am &c
W.S.
John Chester Esqr
Wethersfield Ct
February 9th 1801
Sir
You will receive from the Treasurer of the United States the sum of Eighty two dollars & 83/100 to be paid to Capt. Danl Bissell at Middletown, taking his duplicate receipts holding him accountable for the due application thereof, being for pay of Oliver Roberts late a Private in Capt. A. McClary's Co. of Infantry from 1 Oct. 1797 to 17 April 1799 the day he was discharged —
I am &c
W.S.
Capt. Danl Bissell
Middletown —
February 9th 1801
Sir
I have received your letter dated the 27 Ult. enclosing the papers relative to the claim of Oliver Roberts late a Private in Capt. Andrew McClary's Co. of Infantry — His pay has been made up from the 1 October 1797 to 17th April 1799 the day he was discharged — amounting to Eighty two dollars & 83/100, which sum you will receive from John Chester Supervisor at Wethersfield on giving him your duplicate receipts to be accountable for the due application thereof —
I am &c
W.S.
Jona. Jackson Esqr
Agent of Fortifications
Boston
Accountants Office
February 17th 1801
Sir
Your account of expenditures in the month of December last on account of the Fortifications erecting at Boston have been examined & the sum of five hundred & thirty four dollars & 77/100 passed to your credit on the Books of this Office, leaving a balance of nine thousand nine hundred seventy dollars & fifty five cents due from you to the United States, and differs from your statement eighty one cents being an error on last Settlement as p account of differences forwarded to you on the 26 January last —
I am &c
W.S.
Mr. John Foncin
Fort Independence
near Boston —
February 16th 1801.
Sir
I have received your letter dated the 4th Inst. enclosing your account for Pay for December 1800 & Jan. 1801, amounting to One hundred & eighty six dollars which you will receive from Jon. Jackson Supervisor at Boston on giving him your duplicate receipts —
I am &c
W.S.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Regards the back pay of Oliver Roberts, the sum of which will be transmitted by John Chester
Date
02/09/1801
Author
Recipient
Document number
1801020921655
Page start
390
Notable persons
Captain Daniel Bissell
William Simmons
Private
Oliver Roberts
John Chester
supervisor
Captain Andrew McClary
company of infantry
supervisor at Wethersfield
Notable locations
Middletown
Connecticut
Wethersfield
Notable items
back pay
receipts


