Payroll of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point
Document 1796Freeman has received the payroll of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point, including the officers' subsistance, and finds it to be correct. Captain Wadsworth's subsistence has been deducted from the abstract.
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[Capt Jonas Springer
Union Town
Fayette County
Pennsylvania]
Department of War
Accountants Office
April 10. 1796 —
Sir
Your letter of the 5th Inst' enclosing [text cut off at margin] Muster and Pay role of 31 March 1796 have been received the pay ro[le] has been examined amounting to Two Hundred fifty one Dollars and [text cut off at margin] Twenty Three Cents which you will receive from Henry Miller Esq' Su[pervisor of] the State of Pennsylvania and for which you will sign Duplicate Re[ceipts] to be accountable for the disbursement thereof agreeably to the enclo[sed] Note. I have to observe to you that your own pay is deducte[d from] the Pay Role; You having considerable [undecipherable] money in Your ha[nds] unaccounted for —
I am &c
William Simmons
[Henry Miller Esq'
Supervisor
Pennsylvania]
Department of War
Accountants Office
April 10. 179[6]
Sir
You will receive from the Treasurer of the United States the sum of Two Hundred fifty one Dollars Seventy three Cents which you will please Transmit to Capt Jonas Springer at Union Town Fayette County Pennsylvania being for [the] pay of the Men Commanded by him to the 31st of March 1796 for [which] from him he will sign Duplicate Receipts to be accountable for the due application thereof
I am &c
William Simmons
[Lieut [undecipherable] Freemand
Troops Pay master West Point]
Department of War
Accountants Office
April 19 1796
Sir
Your letter of the [undecipherable] Inst enclosing the Mus[ter] Pay role of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers Stationed at West [Point to] the 30th March 1796 I have received which has been examined and found to be right amounting to Three Thousand Two hundred twenty Six Dollars and Twenty four Cents including the Subsistence of the Officers for February and March, which sums you will receive from — Nicholas Fish Esq' and for which you will give him Duplicate Recei[pts] to be accountable. The Subsistence of Capt Wadsworth's waiter has been Deducted from the Abstract —
I am &c
William Simmons —
[Nicholas Fish Esq'
Supervisor
New York]
Department of War
Accountants Office
April 19. 1796 —
Sir
The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Three Thousand two hundred twenty Six Dollars and Seventy four Cents which please pay to Lieut [undecipherable] Freemans — [undecipherable] Pay Master, at West Point being for the pay Subsistence, and Forage of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at that Post to 30th Mar[ch] 1796 for which he will sign Duplicate Receipts to be accountable for the due application thereof you will also receive the further sum of One hundred fifty eight Dollars and seventy Cents being the Amount of Your Account for Commissions on receiving and paying sundry sums of Money from this Department between the 29 Sept 1795 & 17 Mar 1796 — for which please forward Your Receipt —
I am &c
William Simmons
[John Chester Esq'
Supervisor
Wethersfield
Connecticut]
Department of War
Accountants Office
April 20. 1796
Sir
I have received Your letter of the 16th Inst enclosing the Note of Capt Edwd S Miller for Two hundred twenty three Dollars & Twelve Cents which sum will be passed to Your credit Accordingly on the Books of this Office —
I am &c
William Simmons —
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Freeman has received the payroll of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point, including the officers' subsistance, and finds it to be correct. Captain Wadsworth's subsistence has been deducted from the abstract.
Date
04/19/1796
Author
Recipient
Document number
1796041922455
Notable persons
Nehemiah Freeman
temporary paymaster West Point
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
Wadsworth
supervisor New York
Notable locations
accountant's officer
Department of war
West Point
New York
Notable items
payroll
examination
subsistence
duplicate receipts
abstracts

