Certification of payment; Uriah Tracey expenses in journey traveling from Litchfield Connecticut to Detroit
Document 1801Certification of payment; $730.32 to Uriah Tracey for expenses in journey traveling from Litchfield Connecticut to Detroit and back in order to examine the state of garrisons, trading house, and factories in Northwestern Territories and frontiers of Tennessee and Georgia.
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[304.] Accountants Office
February 27 1800
I Certify that it appears by an account of Uriah Tracy that the expences in a journey performed at the request of the Secretary of War Travelling from Litchfield Connecticut to Detroit & back to Litchfield for the expences of himself & Servants the sum of D° 598.32
That his Compensation from 16 June to the 16 Novr 1800 at 8 D° p day amounts to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1232.-
1830.32
Making in all One thousand eight hundred &thirty dollars & 32/100 which is sanctioned & admitted by the Secretary of War.
That he has received the following Warrants
Viz:
Warrant N° 5717 dated 26th June 1800 in Advance on account of his Compensation under an appointment from the President of The United States to visit & examine into the actual State of the Garrisons Trading Houses or Factories &c in the N.Western Territory on the Mississippi & on the Frontiers of Tennessee & Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . D° 100.-
On Warr.t N° 5718 dated 25 June 1800 in advance on acc.t of his Compensation for Services under an appointment from the President of the U.S. to visit & examine as above the Garrisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D° 1000.- 1100
D° 730.32
Leaving a balance due the Said Uriah Tracy of seven hundred thirty dollars & 32/100 —
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[L. 4730.32]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $730.32 to Uriah Tracey for expenses in journey traveling from Litchfield Connecticut to Detroit and back in order to examine the state of garrisons, trading house, and factories in Northwestern Territories and frontiers of Tennessee and Georgia.
Date
02/27/1801
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1801022721052
Page start
307
Notable persons
Samuel Dexter
William Simmons
Uriah Tracey
James McHenry
servant
President of the United States
John Adams
Accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Litchfield, Connecticut
Detroit
North Western Territory
Mississippi River
frontier
Tennessee
Georgia
Notable items
pay
journey
expense
compensation
warrants
garrisons
trading houses
factories
inspection
travel expenses

