Certification of payments; compensation of Foreman Cheesman
Document 1797Certification that $100 is due Foreman Cheesman, Superintendent of the Navy Yard at New York, being his compensation from July through September 1797.
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D to Accountants Office
July 19 1797
I certify that there is due to Captain Recruit L Blackburn, Lieutenants John Saunders and James Triplett Cadets Peter Hamlin and Thomas Blackburn, the non Commissioned Officers and Privates under the command of Capt Blackburn stationed at Fort Norfolk, the sum of [underline: Three hundred thirty nine dollars and ninety cents] being for his and their pay for June 1797 and for balance of bounty due to Timothy Merrell, Henry Kent & Peter Johnson Privates which sum is to be transmitted to Edward Carrington, Supervisor Virginia and to be by him paid to the said Capt. Blackburn who is to be accountable for the due application thereof.
315.77 Pay of the army
14.13 Bounties Soldiers
[underline: 330.90]
The Secretary of War Wm Simmons
Acct
Accountants Office
July 19th 1797
I certify that there is due to Sergt Philipp Williams commanding at Fort Johnson N. Carolina, the sum of [underline: thirty six dollars], being amount of Bounty paid by him to 3 Recruits & premium for inlisting them which sum is to be transmitted to James Read as Collector, Wilmington, N. Carolina.
Bounties 30
Premium [undecipherable] The Secy of War Wm Simmons
Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $100 is due Foreman Cheesman, Superintendent of the Navy Yard at New York, being his compensation from July through September 1797.
Date
11/09/1797
Author
Recipient
Document number
1797110921051
Note
Added document.
Notable persons
William Simmons
James McHenry
Nicholas Fish
Supervisor New York
Foreman Cheesman, Superintendent of the Navy Yard at New York
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Navy Yard New York
Notable items
pay
compensation
frigate construction

