Crediting Jackson's Account
Document 1801Crediting Jackson's account regarding the fortifications at Boston.
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Suparvisor at Withersfield- on giving him your duplicate receipt to be accountable for the use application thereof—
I am &
W—
Jons Jackson Esqr Accomtants Office
Agent of Inspections February 17th 1801
Boston
Sir Your account of expenditures in the month of December last on account of the fortifications ending at Boston, have been examined to the sum of [undecipherable] hundred & Thirty [undecipherable] dollars have been entered to your [undecipherable] in the Books of this Office leaving, a balance of [undecipherable] thousand nine hundred seventy dollars & fifty five [undecipherable] due from you to the United States and differs from your statement eighty one [undecipherable] being an error in last settlement as [undecipherable] account of differences transmitted to you on the 26 January last—
I am &
W—
Mr John Towner February 10th 1801
Fort Independance
near Boston
Sir I have [undecipherable] your letter dated [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] enclosing your account for [undecipherable] for December 1800 & [undecipherable] 1801 amounting to [undecipherable] hundred & [undecipherable] dollars which you were [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] Jackson Suparvisor at Boston on giving him your duplicate receipt—
I am &
W—
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Crediting Jackson's account regarding the fortifications at Boston.
Date
02/17/1801
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1801021721455
Page start
391
Notable persons
Jonathan Jackson
William Simmons
agent of fortifications
Notable locations
Boston
Accountant's Office
Notable items
expenditures
fortifications
balance
statement
settlement

