Informing Taylor of the his Balance due the United States
Document 1801Balance on Taylor's Accounts for the Troops in South Carolina leave him with a balance of $1153.66 due the United States
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[Will. [undecipherable] by / lat 2d [undecipherable] 1st Reg.]
Accountants Office
February 28th 1801
Sir
Your accounts for payment made to the Troops in South Carolina have undergone examination. The result whereof is as follows.
Balance due the United States of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1800
From which deduct the following sums [undecipherable]
to your credit at this Office [undecipherable] —
Over & [undecipherable] [undecipherable]: Amount paid for [undecipherable] to [undecipherable]
Amount of payments Due by you to [undecipherable] before [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of these [undecipherable], to which they were not entitled & has accordingly been deducted from the balance of pay [undecipherable] due
them respectively .............. 16. 66. 66[undecipherable]
Leaving a balance now [undecipherable] against you of [undecipherable] 1117. [undecipherable] which please to [undecipherable] me to what account it will be most convenient to refund to the United States.
Sam H [undecipherable]
Caleb Swan Esqr.
P. M. G.
February 28 1801
Sir
On settlement of the accounts of [undecipherable] late Pay master 1st Regt of Infantry, there appears [undecipherable] [undecipherable] were by him to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Division of the 2d Regt [undecipherable] in the Pay Bills of his [undecipherable] [undecipherable], under [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] party from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] day [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of his [undecipherable] making a difference of [undecipherable] which [undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Balance on Taylor's Accounts for the Troops in South Carolina leave him with a balance of $1153.66 due the United States
Date
02/28/1801
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1801022821355
Page start
402
Notable persons
William Taylor
William Simmons
troops
officers
servants
paymaster 5th Regiment
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Charleston South Carolina
Notable items
examination
settlement
balance
credit
stationary
subsistence
pay
refund

