Regarding suspension of payment and request for payment in coming months
Document 1795Navy yard clerk Samuel Shore expresses dissatisfaction that Simmons suspended the amount charged to his account and Shore now is expecting to be fully paid for the months of November and December.
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[Address: Mr. William Simmons / Accountants Office / Department of War / Philadelphia]
[Endorsement: d. [undecipherable] 1795]
Navy Yard Gosport 23 December
1795.
Mr William Simmons
Sir
I am duly honoured with your favour dated 10 Inst, and observed you have thought proper to suspend the three first Charges in my last Account Tendered, Amounting £22. 2. 0.
I did not hesitate a doubt in my own mind, but that they [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] your Approbation, and I think nothing less than Reasonable Charges — You will please to make them out and let the pay due me for November stand, until the present Month is out so as to include them both. say from
the 23. October, to December 31. conformadable to your Letter dated 20. November —
Respectfully
I am Sir
[undecipherable] 22 [undecipherable]
your Mt Oct. Sert
Samuel Shore
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Navy yard clerk Samuel Shore expresses dissatisfaction that Simmons suspended the amount charged to his account and Shore now is expecting to be fully paid for the months of November and December.
Date
12/23/1795
Author
Sent from
Navy Yard, Gosport
Document number
1795122370010
Notable persons
Samuel Shore
William Simmons
clerk navy yard
War Department
Accountant
Notable locations
Navy Yard, Gosport Virginia
Accountant's Office, Department of War, Philadelphia