Certification of payment; Elijah and Simon House, contractors, Connecticut, for rations, quartermaster, and hospital supplies, for troops of United States in Connecticut
Document 1801Certification of payment; $920 to Elijah and Simon House, contractors, Connecticut, for rations, quartermaster, and hospital supplies, for troops of United States in Connecticut.
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Accountants Office
February 10 1801
I certify that there is due to Alexander Gibson late Captain the sum of [underline: One Hundred & fifty dollars] being for ground rent for a Cantonment at Staunton for damages &c and for digging and walling a Well & putting a pump therein for the Troops of the U.S. in the year 1799. which sum is payable to Alex. Gibson by assignment of said Gibson —
W.S. —
Quarter Mr Dept — A$ 150.
The Sec.y of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $920 to Elijah and Simon House, contractors, Connecticut, for rations, quartermaster, and hospital supplies, for troops of United States in Connecticut.
Date
02/10/1801
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1801021021052
Page start
292
Notable persons
Samuel Dexter
William Simmons
Jedediah Huntington esquire
collector New London Connecticut
Elijah House
Simon House
contractors
troops
accountant
Secretary of War
Jedediah Huntingdon
Notable locations
Connecticut
Accountant's Office
New London
Notable items
pay
rations
quartermaster supplies
hospital supplies